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Queens, New York has 90 accredited schools offering cybercrime programs, with tuition ranging from $5,206 to $64,915 per year for indexed programs. Queens has a population of about 2,333,054. In the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, the top-earning cybercrime-related role is Information Security Analyst at a median $140,470 annually (BLS OEWS, May 2025).
The accredited institutions listed below are the closest in our directory that offer cybercrime programs near Queens, ranked by BOC Score and straight-line distance from Queens city center. The list is rebuilt from federal IPEDS data on every site update.
Every school list on this site is ordered by the BOC Score, computed from the most recent school-level data published by the U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and IPEDS). To qualify, a school must be currently operating and accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Each eligible school is then scored on five measures, percentile-ranked against schools at the same credential level:
Schools without enough outcome data appear after ranked schools, without a score. On this page, schools are ordered by distance from Queens. Advertising never affects these rankings. Read the full methodology.
Source:IPEDSCollege Scorecard
Source: IPEDS / College Scorecard (2023 cohort). Browse all New York schools on the New York cybercrime page.
Queens is part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area (BLS area code 35620). Where MSA-level wages are published, the table below shows MSA medians; otherwise it falls back to New York statewide.
| Occupation | Median Wage | Source | COL-Adjusted (US=100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information Security Analyst | $140,470 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $124,751 |
| Detective and Criminal Investigator | $106,440 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $94,529 |
| Computer Systems Analyst | $128,340 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $113,979 |
Source: BLS, May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wage data at the metro (MSA) and state level – not by individual city.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Regional Price Parity (US=100) | 112.6 (above U.S. average) | BEA RPP 2024 |
Our directory has 90 accredited schools offering cybercrime programs near Queens. The closest is St. John’s University-New York in Queens, NY (1.9 miles), and the farthest of the schools shown is CUNY Graduate School and University Center (9.7 miles). 10 of the highlighted schools are flagged as offering distance education.
Based on BLS OEWS May 2025 wage data, the top-paying cybercrime-related roles near Queens are: Information Security Analyst ($140,470), Computer Systems Analyst ($128,340), Detective and Criminal Investigator ($106,440). These reflect MSA-level medians where published, with New York statewide fallback for occupations not reported at the metro level.
Valley Stream, NY is 7.6 miles from Queens and has its own set of local cybercrime programs – see the city’s page. For online programs, distance matters less; for hybrid or in-person formats, comparing both can help.
Confirm institutional accreditation via the U.S. Department of Education database (U.S. Dept. of Education database), and check for any program-specific accreditation listed by the school.
Compare every accredited online degree program with city-level data for Queens:
Data verified: August 11, 2026. Salary, employment, and tuition figures on this page are sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS May 2025; Employment Projections 2024–2034) and the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (2023 cohort). The source agency and data year are cited inline with every statistic.
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