2023 Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in Arkansas for a Master’s

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Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 113,121 degrees were awarded to students with this major. 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 Arkansas, there were 1,226 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,335 and $24,318 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in Arkansas for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice and corrections. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in criminal justice and corrections.

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Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in Arkansas for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in Arkansas for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Arkansas

1

University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

#11 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in Arkansas for a Master’s. Little Rock, Arkansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at UA Little Rock

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Arkansas State University - Main Campus
Jonesboro, Arkansas

#4 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Criminal Justice Major in Arkansas for a Master’s list. Jonesboro, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Corrections at A-State

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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

• *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.