Bachelor's · Marion, Indiana
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global 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 5.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $51,853
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $56,530
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $72k (likely $72k – $72k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $17k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.7 years (likely 4.3–8.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$69k (likely −$125k – −$3k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $135k (likely $7k – $281k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 28%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$77,458
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Bachelor's)$75,533
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- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$72,522
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication (Bachelor's)$71,669
Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in Indiana
- Calumet College of Saint Joseph$106,465
- Oakland City University$62,595
- University of Indianapolis$62,307
- Indiana University-Indianapolis$59,541
- Indiana University-Northwest$58,155
- Indiana University-Bloomington$57,754
- Purdue University Global$56,660
- Vincennes University$53,461
- Ball State University$52,997
- Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion$52,629