by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Missouri” 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 Missouri, there were 865 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,301 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Missouri” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in criminal justice.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Missouri” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for missouri master’s degree criminal justice students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia College landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia College is located in Columbia, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 masters’s criminal justice degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Criminal Justice at Columbia College Missouri
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Missouri. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Missouri list. University of Central Missouri is a fairly large public school situated in Warrensburg, Missouri. It awarded 13 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Kansas City landed the #3 spot on the list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Missouri State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Southeast Missouri State University is located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s criminal justice degrees to qualified students.
Full Southeast Missouri State University Criminal Justice Report
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