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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Massachusetts, there were 300 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,704 and $26,617 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 criminology graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,084 and $0 respectively.
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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The criminology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Massachusetts”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree criminology students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lasell University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Criminology Major in Massachusetts. 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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