Bachelor's · Spartanburg, South Carolina
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at University of South Carolina-Upstate 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 6.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $42,801
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $51,782
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,961
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $66k (likely $66k – $89k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in SC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.9 years (likely 5.4–9.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$95k (likely −$162k – −$42k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $103k (likely −$22k – $232k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 43%
- 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 South Carolina
- Citadel Military College of South Carolina$65,574
- Columbia College$59,371
- Strayer University-South Carolina$53,916
- Charleston Southern University$53,162
- North Greenville University$51,418
- University of South Carolina-Columbia$50,847
- Anderson University$49,825
- Bob Jones University$46,332
- South University-Columbia$46,322
- South Carolina State University$45,061