2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Nebraska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 113,121 criminal justice and corrections students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, criminal justice and corrections graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,465 and had an average of $25,425 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 732 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,940 and $27,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 66 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,838 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Nebraska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in criminal justice and corrections. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their criminal justice and corrections program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Nebraska

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska master’s degree criminal justice students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Nebraska

1

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

#5 overall quality in Nebraska

$48,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Nebraska. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Nebraska at Omaha

2

Bellevue University
Bellevue, Nebraska

#4 overall quality in Nebraska

$57,232 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Nebraska list. Bellevue, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at Bellevue University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections

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.