Bachelor's · Pembroke, North Carolina
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at University of North Carolina at Pembroke 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 4.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,375
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,116
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $45k (likely $45k – $60k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.6 years (likely 3.8–5.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$40k (likely −$110k – $4k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $183k (likely $70k – $306k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 44%
- 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 North Carolina
- High Point University$65,607
- Wingate University$62,075
- Belmont Abbey College$60,235
- Greensboro College$56,598
- Western Carolina University$55,903
- Appalachian State University$55,474
- Guilford College$54,209
- Strayer University-North Carolina$53,916
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$53,738
- Methodist University$53,072