Bachelor's · Denver, Colorado
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at Metropolitan State University of Denver 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 5.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $53,978
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,757
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,214
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $62k (likely $59k – $83k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $16k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.8 years (likely 4.7–7.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$111k (likely −$187k – −$54k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $106k (likely −$15k – $238k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 31%
- 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 Colorado
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$61,192
- Colorado State University Global$61,075
- Colorado Mesa University$58,708
- University of Northern Colorado$55,282
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs$53,198
- Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs$46,981
- Colorado Christian University$44,849