2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminology in the New England Region

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Criminology is the 76th most popular major in the country with 11,039 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 747 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 70 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminology in the New England Region

1

Lasell University
Newton, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lasell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lasell is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Newton, Massachusetts. It awarded 64 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the New England Region. UNH is a fairly large school located in Durham, New Hampshire that handed out 6 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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3

Thomas College
Waterville, Maine

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Thomas College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the New England Region. Thomas College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Waterville, Maine. It awarded 0 masters’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Criminology at Thomas College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminology

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.