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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master's Degree Schools in District of Columbia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$35,680 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,557 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 335 degrees and certificates were awarded to criminal justice and corrections students who went to a District of Columbia college or university. This makes it the #22 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master's Degree Schools in District of Columbia to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in District of Columbia to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for criminal justice students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia

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

Best District of Columbia Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Criminal Justice & Corrections

Our analysis found George Washington University to be the best value school for criminal justice and corrections students who want to pursue a master’s degree in District of Columbia. GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Washington.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at GWU are $32,904 a year.

GWU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia list.

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#2

American University

Washington, DC

Out of the 2 schools in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Washington, The American University is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

The American University graduate students pay an average of $38,456 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

The American University also took the #3 spot in our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia rankings.

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Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 3,232
New York 8,093
Maryland 948
New Jersey 2,955
Delaware 280

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.

  • 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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