Bachelor's · Parkville, Missouri
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at Park University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 4.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $57,141
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $63,804
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $81k (likely $81k – $107k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $25k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.8 years (likely 4.0–6.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$12k (likely −$86k – $40k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $293k (likely $173k – $423k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 36%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$87,051
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$85,568
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$85,162
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$85,049
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$82,973
- Public Administration (Master's)$80,800
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$78,561
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Associate's)$75,902
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Associate's)$71,051
- Construction Management (Bachelor's)$69,415
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$68,135
- Geography and Cartography (Bachelor's)$65,890
Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in Missouri
- Saint Louis University$61,099
- Lindenwood University$58,400
- Truman State University$56,596
- Columbia College$56,128
- University of Central Missouri$52,875
- Missouri Western State University$52,709
- Missouri Baptist University$52,689
- Missouri Southern State University$49,114
- Harris-Stowe State University$49,010
- Lincoln University$48,315