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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$25,047 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$31,065 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, criminal justice and corrections students earned 494 degrees and certificates from a Rhode Island school, making the subject the 9th in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for criminal justice students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for criminal justice majors pursuing a associate degree.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Criminal Justice & Corrections

Our analysis found Community College of Rhode Island to be the best value school for criminal justice and corrections students who want to pursue a associate degree in Rhode Island. Located in the city of Warwick, CCRI is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at CCRI are $4,980 a year. On average, criminal justice graduates from CCRI take out $13,622 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

CCRI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.

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The excellent associate degree programs at New England Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in Rhode Island. New England Tech is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of East Greenwich.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at New England Tech are $32,807 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, New England Tech is ranked #2 for overall quality for criminal justice in Rhode Island.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Roger Williams University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in Rhode Island. Located in the large suburb of Bristol, RWU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

RWU undergraduate students pay an average of $37,355 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

RWU also took the #1 spot in our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island rankings.

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Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the New England Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 2,462
Connecticut 1,260
New Hampshire 1,478
Maine 247
Vermont 207

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 3 schools only.

  • 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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