Boise City, ID (population: 210,099) has five law and criminal justice schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Boise State University, the highest ranked school in this group with a law and criminal justice program, has a total student population of 18,933. It is the 448th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Idaho (#1 is University of Idaho). To learn more about law and criminal justice programs in Boise City, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of law and criminal justice professors at Boise State University such as Jeremy Ball, Jacquelyn Biggers, Michael Bixby, Michael Blankenship, Lisa Bostaph, and Matthew Brechwald.
Law and Criminal Justice students from Boise City schools who go on to become law and criminal justice professionals, corrections officers, jailers, court reporters, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 556,790 people working as lawyers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $129,020. Also, Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators make on average $63,250 per year and there are about 8,110 of them employed in the US today.
Boise City lies in Ada county, which is one of the 33 counties in Idaho. Overall, the Boise City-Nampa area has 264,010 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $39,600 average annual salary.
Of the 5 law and criminal justice schools with a 100-mile radius of Boise City, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Idaho Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,120/yr) for law and criminal justice students, with Treasure Valley Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,355/yr.