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2023 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

2 Colleges
$65,234 Avg Salary
$18,395 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate School for You

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of the most popular subjects to study in Virginia. With 2,948 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 8th out of all the majors we track in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Virginia to see which ones offered the best graduate certificate programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

View our full ranking methodology.

2023 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Top Virginia Schools for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Criminal Justice & Corrections

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

Our analysis found Liberty University to be the best school for criminal justice and corrections students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Virginia. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Lynchburg.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at Liberty University

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia list. VCU is a very large public school located in the city of Richmond.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Virginia Commonwealth University Report

Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 2,158
North Carolina 2,702
Florida 4,869
Tennessee 1,212
Kentucky 1,015
South Carolina 993
Louisiana 972
Arkansas 665
Alabama 1,413
Mississippi 581
West Virginia 1,320

One of 4 majors within the area of study, criminal justice and corrections has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fire Protection 13,766
Homeland Security 7,140
Security Science and Technology 6,888
Other Homeland Security 1,695

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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