2023 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Oregon
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When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
With 113,121 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, criminal justice and corrections is the 7th most popular major in the United States. 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 Oregon, there were 502 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,756 and $24,710 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 275 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,095 and $25,983 respectively.
This year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in criminal justice and corrections. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality criminal justice and corrections programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the criminal justice and corrections program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 3 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Oregon
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Portland State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s list. Portland State University is located in Portland, Oregon and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 142 bachelors’s criminal justice degrees to qualified students.
Portland State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list.According to our most recent data, Portland State University supports 23,640 students, and 1,127 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 739 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,835. To help with additional expenses, 100 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Portland State University does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 veteran student life at Portland State University]](/colleges/portland-state-university/student-life/veterans/)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Oregon University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s. Located in Monmouth, Oregon, this small public school awarded 86 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s criminal justice students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Western Oregon State College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking.According to our most recent data, Western Oregon University supports 4,554 students, and 187 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 89 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,651. To help with additional expenses, 2 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.
Full Western Oregon State College Veteran Student Life Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Oregon University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Oregon for Criminal Justice for a Bachelor’s. Ashland, Oregon is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s criminal justice degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.
Southern Oregon University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Oregon” list.Among the 5,140 students enrolled at Southern Oregon University, 250 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 116 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $7,435. To help with additional expenses, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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