Bachelor's · Brooklyn, New York
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at St. Joseph's University-New York 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 4.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $52,614
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $64,953
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $22,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $80k (likely $80k – $94k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $27k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.7 years (likely 3.9–6.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $10k (likely −$64k – $77k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $343k (likely $194k – $503k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 68%
- 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 / ≤ 20%
- 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 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
- State University of New York at Oswego$59,563
- CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice$59,343
- SUNY Oneonta$58,964
- Iona University$58,688