Ranked highly among best Criminal Justice M.S. programs in the country, our program 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.
The Master of Science in Criminal Justice Program is always offered entirely online with a minimum of four synchronous sessions a semester. Unlike other online programs, where students have no direct interaction with faculty and peers, here students have the opportunity to interact in a virtual setting in each course, but maintain the flexibility of never having to come to campus.
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Recent rankings placed the Master of Science in Criminal Justice in the top programs in the United States.
Applicants may qualify for a waiver of the GRE requirement if the student possesses an overall GPA of 3.30 or higher as evidenced by his/her official, final degree transcript from the applicant’s baccalaureate degree-awarding institution, or by completion of a master’s degree in a related field.
Advanced Instruction provides students like you the instruction required to take your employment to the next level in the field of Criminal Justice.
- Corrections Supervisor
- Court Administration Manager
- Government Liaison
- Law Enforcement Supervisor
- Intelligence Analysis Manager
- Online or Cybersecurity Manger