2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi

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With 113,581 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, criminal justice and corrections is the 6th most popular major in the United States. 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 Mississippi, there were 670 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,025 and $24,266 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,708 and $105,501 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great criminal justice and corrections programs and 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Mississippi

#1

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$10,896 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Miss is a public institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Southern Miss also took the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Miss are $10,896, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Corrections at Southern Miss

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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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