Bachelor's · Houston, Texas
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at University of Houston-Downtown 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 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $46,389
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $57,561
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,143
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $45k (likely $42k – $59k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $21k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 3.3–4.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$17k (likely −$82k – $31k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $241k (likely $138k – $361k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 30%
- 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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Other majors at University of Houston-Downtown
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Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in Texas
- Saint Edward's University$66,986
- McMurry University$63,963
- Texas Woman's University$60,708
- Stephen F Austin State University$58,606
- DeVry University-Texas$58,145
- West Texas A & M University$58,011
- Wayland Baptist University$57,805
- The University of Texas at Arlington$57,210
- Texas Christian University$56,791
- Angelo State University$54,853