2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

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 “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 6th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 113,581 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, criminal justice and corrections graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,952 and had an average of $24,936 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 269 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,564 and $26,875 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,633 and $49,829 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice and corrections programs, but they also cost less that 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 and corrections program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree criminal justice students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $48-$75k) in Maine

#1

Husson University

Bangor, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$17,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maine For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Husson University landed the #1 spot on the list. Husson is a small school located in Bangor, Maine that handed out 16 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

Husson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Husson are $17,100.

Full Husson University Criminal Justice & Corrections Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $48-$75k)

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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