Bachelor's · Beckley, West Virginia
Is Criminal Justice and Corrections at West Virginia University Institute of Technology worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 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 12.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $40,893
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $63k (likely $63k – $86k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $6k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WV
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 12.8 years (likely 5.4–20+)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$171k (likely −$261k – −$65k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$105k (likely −$258k – $119k)
- 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
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Other majors at West Virginia University Institute of Technology
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Criminal Justice and Corrections at other schools in West Virginia
- American Public University System$69,546
- West Virginia Wesleyan College$57,335
- Strayer University-West Virginia$53,916
- Salem University$53,027
- West Virginia State University$50,063
- Marshall University$49,559
- Fairmont State University$49,055
- West Liberty University$45,353
- Bluefield State University$42,085
- Potomac State College of West Virginia University$38,071