2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminology in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 11,039 people earned their degree in criminology, making the major the 80th most popular in the United States. 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 the Far Western US region, there were 1,937 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,641 and $21,016 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in criminology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminology in the Far Western US Region

1

University of California - Irvine
Irvine, California

#23 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Irvine landed the #1 spot on the list. UC Irvine is a large public school situated in Irvine, California. It awarded 9 doctorate’s criminology degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Criminology at UC Irvine

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Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminology Major in the Far Western US Region list. Pullman, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s criminology degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.