Bachelor's · Rochester, New York
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at Rochester Institute of Technology worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 12 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $45,587
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $56,610
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,458
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $171k (likely $159k – $222k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 12 years (likely 8.3–19.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$215k (likely −$334k – −$102k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $25k (likely −$178k – $262k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 70%
- 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 New York
- Excelsior University$75,828
- Utica University$69,898
- Marist University$65,881
- St. John's University-New York$63,978
- Pace University$63,514
- Canisius University$60,674
- St. Joseph's University-New York$60,471
- State University of New York at Oswego$59,563
- CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice$59,343
- SUNY Oneonta$58,964