Department of Criminal Justice

 

Degree Programs

The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice offers a Master of Science or a Master of Arts degree in criminal justice and a Doctor of Philosophy. The degree programs emphasize criminal justice research, theory, planning and administration.

Admission Requirements - Master of Arts and Master of Science

All candidates for the criminal justice graduate program must have a minimum of 18 semester hours of criminal justice or related courses which represent the core undergraduate curriculum. In addition, all candidates must have completed a basic statistics course, a research methods course, and a minimum of 15 hours in the social science area at the undergraduate level. Those students lacking these requirements will be required to make up these deficiencies during the first year of graduate work.

Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores are required for admission. An admission decision will not be made without these scores. A combined score of at least 850 on the verbal and quantitative portions of the GRE is required. Two letters of recommendation from academics are also required

For more information...

about the graduate program in Criminal Justice, please call (402) 554-2610.