2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Wisconsin

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Wisconsin, there were 1,872 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,792 and $22,147 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 51 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in criminal justice and corrections. 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Wisconsin

#1

University of Wisconsin - Platteville

Platteville, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$18,226 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$56,415 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Platteville. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin list. UW - Platteville is a medium-sized school located in Platteville, Wisconsin that handed out 39 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Platteville also made our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Platteville are $18,226, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Wisconsin - Platteville

#2

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$25,295 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified masters’s criminal justice students in 2019-2020.

UWM also made our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee are $25,295.

Full University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Criminal Justice & Corrections Report

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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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