Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Criminal Justice & Corrections School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of criminal justice & corrections for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality criminal justice program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to criminal justice & corrections students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of criminal justice & corrections students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt criminal justice & corrections students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminal justice & corrections related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for criminal justice & corrections students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Due to absent data, we could not show you the criminal justice & corrections quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer criminal justice & corrections and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Criminal Justice & Corrections rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections ranking.

Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges by State

Explore the best criminal justice & corrections schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	15
New York	174	11
New Jersey	115	2
District of Columbia	81	2

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Rankings in Majors Related to Criminal Justice

One of 4 majors within the Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting area of study, Criminal Justice & Corrections has other similar majors worth exploring.

Criminal Justice Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice Studies	37
Criminal Justice	13
Securities Services Administration/Management	2

Majors Similar to Criminal Justice

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Homeland Security	9
Other Homeland Security	3

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.