2023 Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Criminal Justice is the 27th most popular major in the country with 32,891 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,424 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice. To top this list, a school must have a successful criminal justice program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree criminal justice students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in the Southwest Region

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Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s criminal justice students in 2020-2021.

Full Texas Southern University Criminal Justice Report

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Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. Texas State is a large public school situated in San Marcos, Texas. It awarded 2 doctorate’s criminal justice degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Criminal Justice at Texas State

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice

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.