Bachelor's · Providence, Rhode Island
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at Johnson & Wales University-Online worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 8.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,450
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,830
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $94k (likely $94k – $128k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in RI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.8 years (likely 7.3–11.2)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$155k (likely −$241k – −$104k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $71k (likely −$57k – $198k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 0%
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- 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 Rhode Island
- Roger Williams University$70,747
- Salve Regina University$67,622
- New England Institute of Technology$61,128
- Rhode Island College$58,156
- Johnson & Wales University-Providence$56,632