Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration

The Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration is designed to provide post-baccalaureate education to criminal justice professionals. The primary goal of the program is to develop in graduates the ability to analyze, comprehend, and resolve the complex problems confronting the criminal justice system.

Criminal justice and law enforcement agencies are actively encouraging their officers and staff representatives to pursue criminal justice degrees as a means of gaining advanced training, improved salaries, and prestige in the field. Increasingly, federal and state agencies employing law enforcement personnel, including police officers, special agents, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, state police, postal inspectors, juvenile justice specialists, FBI agents, DEA agents, U.S. Marshals and Deputy Marshals, INS agents and others are requiring a college degree as a condition of employment and promotion into higher ranking leadership positions require an advanced degree.

Estimated time of completion of this program is 3 years.

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Curriculum

Graduates will successfully complete 37 semester hours outlined below
Semester Hours
MS Criminal Justice Administration Core Courses 37
Total 37
Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration 37
OR 5000 - Graduate Student Orientation 1
MCJ 5135 - Theory of Crime and Criminology 3
MCJ 5078 - Computer Applications for Criminal Justice Administration 3
MCJ 5390 - Critical Analysis of Criminal Justice Administration 3
MCJ 5460 - Juvenile Justice Administration and Delinquency 3
MCJ 5532 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice Administration 3
MCJ 6150 - Training and Development in Criminal Justice 3
MCJ 6230 - Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice 3
MCJ 6257 - Criminal Courts and Professional Ethics 3
MBA 6841 - Public Budgeting 3
MCJ 6374 - Special Topics in Criminology and Criminal Justice 3
MCJ 6453 - Global Terrorism 3
MCJ 6530 - Critical Analysis of Criminal Justice Public Policy 3
   
Total 37 Semester Hours

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