by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Criminology is the 80th most popular major in the country with 11,039 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, criminology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,568 and had an average of $24,453 in loans still to pay off.
Across Michigan, there were 150 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,159 and $29,143 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 134 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,004 and $27,379 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan” 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan” 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan list. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 92 bachelors’s criminology degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan. Dearborn, Michigan is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s criminology degrees to 42 students 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%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Calvin University landed the #3 spot on the list. Calvin University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It awarded 0 bachelors’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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