2023 Most Focused 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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Jersey” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 32,891 people earned their degree in criminal justice, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States.

Across New Jersey, there were 620 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice. That schools that top this list have a program in criminal justice in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Jersey”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in New Jersey

1

College of Saint Elizabeth
Morristown, New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Saint Elizabeth landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Morristown, New Jersey, and it awarded 11 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Criminal Justice at College of Saint Elizabeth

2

Kean University
Union, New Jersey

#17 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kean University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in New Jersey. Kean is a public institution located in Union, New Jersey. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Criminal Justice at Kean

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.