2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in New Jersey

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Criminal Justice is the 32nd most popular major in the country with 33,568 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across New Jersey, there were 537 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality criminal justice programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the criminal justice program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree criminal justice students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in New Jersey

#1

College of Saint Elizabeth

Morristown, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$18,734 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Saint Elizabeth. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey. This small school is located in Morristown, New Jersey, and it awarded 8 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CSE, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at CSE are $18,734, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Criminal Justice at College of Saint Elizabeth

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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