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East Carolina
University ranked number two at $4,290 (NC); $14,781 (Others), with Troy
University of Alabama taking the number three spot at $5,190 for all
online degree seekers regardless of their state of residency.
By comparison, the
average cost for a distance master’s in this career area came in at just
over $13,000.
A complete list of
GetEducated.com’s Top 15 Ranked Best Buys in Online Masters in Justice
Studies can be viewed at the clearinghouse’s website at
http://www.geteducated.com/rankings/best_cj.asp
“Several higher
education cost trends are apparent in the data,” comments Vicky
Phillips, chief analyst, and GetEducated.com’s founder. “The public’s
best buys continue to come from public university systems, especially
those in the South. The most expensive options come from private
colleges, notably the for-profit systems, who are heavily invested in
charging higher tuition to recoup high advertising costs.”
The University of
Phoenix, America’s largest for-profit online college, failed to make the
Best Buy list. Phoenix ranks as one of the two most expensive options
for online study in the area of justice. A master’s of administration
in criminal justice through distance learning at Phoenix costs just over
$23,000, almost five times more than the top ranked best buy on the
list.
Boston University
also rated as an expensive option at just over $23,000.
While cost is the
number concern that plagues college students many online learners also
express an interest in locating their most “prestigious” option for
online study. The more prestigious the degree, the more students are
willing to pay. GetEducated.com’s new free downloadable guidebook
profiles a total of 26 name-brand regionally accredited schools that
consumers can choose from.
“Students seeking a
high quality name brand distance degree program in the area of justice
won’t be disappointed,” says Phillips. At $13,250 Michigan State
University ranks 13th, offering a reasonably priced option
from the first college in America to offer a master’s degree in justice
studies. The Michigan program was launched in 1935 and offers elearners
the opportunity to earn the same degree as awarded to residential
learners. The Michigan master’s program also offers an increasingly
popular new major in Homeland Security.
Other prestigious
options include the University of Cincinnati, whose faculty in criminal
justice has been ranked number one among research-tier universities by
the Journal of Criminal Justice. Cincinnati’s distance degree mirrors
their residential degree. “It’s a nationally top ranked program that
until recently could only be enjoyed by Ohio residents,” comments
Phillips. “Degrees of this nationally competitive quality are
thankfully becoming more and more common in distance delivery mode.”
Consumers can cost
compare all their accredited online degree options by downloading a FREE
copy of the clearinghouse’s new ebook: GetEducated.com’s Best
Distance Learning Graduate Schools, Criminal Justice, Law & Legal
Degrees, at
http://www.geteducated.com/guidebooks/bdlgs_cj.asp
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helping consumers find their best buys in online degrees
GetEducated.com’s web site has been named by Newsweek’s consumer
reporting team as “the source” for weeding out phonies among online
degrees.
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