by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 11,039 people earned their degree in criminology, making the major the 76th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,493 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 80 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in criminology. That schools that top this list have a program in criminology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tiffin University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Tiffin, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s criminology degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Bowling Green, Ohio, and it awarded 43 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Dearborn landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Michigan - Dearborn is a medium-sized public school situated in Dearborn, Michigan. It awarded 11 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana State University landed the #4 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and it awarded 8 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, this fairly large public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s criminology students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Criminology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
With a ranking of #6, Eastern Michigan University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 masters’s criminology degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Criminology at Eastern Michigan University
Adler University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s criminology students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
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