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2023 Best Value Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Washington

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$29,096 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$32,876 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 289 degrees and certificates were awarded to criminology students who went to a Washington college or university. This makes it the #65 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

The Best Value Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Washington ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Washington to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for criminology students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for criminology majors pursuing a bachelor's degree.

Best Washington Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Criminology

Our analysis found Eastern Washington University to be the best value school for criminology students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Washington. Located in the town of Cheney, EWU is a public college with a large student population.

EWU undergraduate students pay an average of $7,922 in in-state tuition and fees each year. After completing their Bachelor's Degree, criminology graduates from EWU carry an average student debtload of $19,756.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Washington State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminology schools in Washington. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.

Wazzu undergraduate students pay an average of $12,417 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Gonzaga University

Spokane, WA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Gonzaga University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington list. Located in the city of Spokane, Gonzaga is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Gonzaga are $48,470 a year.

Gonzaga did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington list.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Pacific Lutheran University is a great value for criminology students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Tacoma, PLU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at PLU are $47,576 a year.

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Best Value Criminology Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Criminology Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 1,459
Oregon 12
Nevada 177

Criminology is one of 12 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Political Science & Government 49,282
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
General Social Sciences 18,997
International Relations & National Security 14,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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