Bachelor's · Alexandria, Louisiana
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at Louisiana State University at Alexandria worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $49,894
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $56,456
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $51k (likely $51k – $67k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in LA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 2.8–5.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$3k (likely −$85k – $81k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $264k (likely $97k – $434k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 29%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in Louisiana
- Herzing University-New Orleans$69,601
- Dillard University$49,687
- Southern University and A & M College$49,609
- Southern University Law Center$49,609
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette$49,201
- McNeese State University$46,223
- Southeastern Louisiana University$45,393
- Southern University at New Orleans$44,723
- Northwestern State University of Louisiana$44,267
- Grambling State University$44,033