Bachelor's · Little Rock, Arkansas
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at University of Arkansas at Little Rock 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,547
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $47,251
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $72k (likely $72k – $98k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $12k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in AR
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.6 years (likely 6.1–13.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$131k (likely −$209k – −$69k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $7k (likely −$107k – $133k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 41%
- 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 Arkansas
- University of Arkansas Grantham$54,793
- Strayer University-Arkansas$53,916
- University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff$53,255
- University of Arkansas$49,690
- Harding University$48,992
- University of Arkansas at Monticello$47,929
- Southern Arkansas University Main Campus$44,523
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith$43,509
- Arkansas Tech University$41,471
- Philander Smith University$41,119