2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Alaska

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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 Alaska, there were 115 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $23,635 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,325 and $26,561 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Alaska.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$24,287 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAF, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UAF are $24,287, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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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