Bachelor's · Warrensburg, Missouri
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at University of Central Missouri 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 5.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $47,407
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $56,794
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,318
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $66k (likely $66k – $78k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.6 years (likely 4.7–7.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$61k (likely −$112k – −$18k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $171k (likely $66k – $290k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 52%
- 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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Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in Missouri
- Saint Louis University$61,099
- Park University$59,401
- Lindenwood University$58,400
- Truman State University$56,596
- Columbia College$56,128
- 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