Security & criminal justice

Criminal Justice and Corrections

Western New England University · Springfield, MA

Medium evidenceMatched peers12 institutions · same subjectSee the evidence

The degree in numbers

Cost & earnings.

Annual tuition$46,430Institution-level tuition; programme fees may differ · before aid
Reported median debt$27,000Reported for this university and degree
Annual credentials awarded50Average of available recent award years; not the earnings sample size.

Earnings context

One career stage.
A clearer comparison.

USD · Bachelor's · 2 years after completion
Same source release. National references exclude this degree.

Selected degree estimate$33,681
Same subject · national$34,157
Security & criminal justice · national$34,526

Behind the number

Your comparison group.

Medium evidence

Same subject at 12 matched peer institutions · bachelor's

Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $31,174–$36,088.

Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.

Bachelor's outcomes · 2 years after completion
Institution & subjectReported earnings
Saint Edward's UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$28,212
Widener UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$46,087
Stevenson UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$35,594
Carthage CollegeCriminal Justice and Corrections$31,670
Mercyhurst UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$32,658
Indiana Wesleyan University-MarionCriminal Justice and Corrections$34,704
Trine UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$32,071
Mount Vernon Nazarene UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$35,416
The University of FindlayCriminal Justice and Corrections$39,009
Ashland UniversityCriminal Justice and Corrections$37,568
University of HartfordCriminal Justice and Corrections$29,685
University of Mount UnionCriminal Justice and Corrections$28,960
How matching & uncertainty work

We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.

If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.

Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.

Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.

Historical cohort outcomes are not promised salaries or a causal effect of attending this programme. College Scorecard earnings cover eligible federal-aid recipients, not every graduate or international student. Source definitions ↗