| Areas of Emphasis Offered: | None |
| Certificates: | None |
| Curriculum: | 32 credit hours with a thesis and 36 credit hours non-thesis. |
| Normal time to complete for full-time student: | 2 years. |
| Program Highlights | The Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice provides students with advanced theoretical, legal, and methodological training for research, teaching, and management careers in criminal justice. The program serves to educate criminal justice professionals and prepare students for further advanced graduate work, legal studies, and scholarship. |
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Program Objectives |
This program will provide students with the conceptual and research skills needed to undertake advanced analyses of the criminal justice system; serve criminal justice professionals and others who are interested in pursuing professional careers in management and administration; furnish law enforcement, corrections and court practitioners with knowledge of justice administration, theoretical perspectives of human behavior, policy analysis and criminal justice theory; and prepare social scientists to pursue careers in university and research settings. |
| Jobs Related to this Program: | For more information,
please click on the links below to the O*NET website
supported by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Current Graduate Catalog (see for complete program and admission requirements) |
http://www.marshall.edu/catalog/Graduate/index.html |
| Application deadline for Admission | Fall: July 1; Spring: November 1 |
| GRE or other test required | GRE |
| Tuition and Fees | 2011-2012: Office of the Bursar |
| Funding options | Graduate Assistantships available through degree
program : http://www.marshall.edu/criminal-justice/grad/Grad%20Assistant%20App.pdf OR http://www.marshall.edu/graduate/forms/financeinfo.pdf |
| Program location | Huntington |
Marshall University | One John Marshall Drive | Huntington, WV 25755 | 1–800–642–3463
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