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The Top Five Criminal Justice Graduate Programs
Criminal justice is a vast field with many areas of study, careers to choose from and ways to use your education to serve communities and countries. Most people stick with an undergraduate or associate’s degree, since many entry level jobs only require this level of learning. However, many are turning to criminal justice graduate programs to earn a more advanced degree so they can move into higher positions or work in more specialized fields, such as cybercrime and anti-terrorism. Finding the right criminal justice graduate program that meets your needs can be a difficult search, but below are the top five universities that have the best criminal justice graduate programs.
University of Maryland – College Park
This criminal justice graduate program offers two different Master’s degrees and a doctorate degree related to criminal justice – a Master’s of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts and Doctor of Jurisprudence (M.A./J.D.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).
University at Albany – SUNY
This university offers a Master’s of Arts in Criminal Justice and also offers a unique concentration in information technology for those that are interested in internet and network security. Albany also has a joint M.A./M.S.W. (Master of Social Work) graduate degree program.
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati offers two Master’s programs and a doctorate program. One of their Master’s degrees is offered through their online college which makes their program quite unique.
University of Missouri – St. Louis
This university offers both a masters and doctorate degree. They also offer a number of online courses for their students in the program, although currently there is no entirely online degree program.
South University
A unique school amongst its peers, South University offers a Master of Science in Criminal Justice and a M.S. in Homeland Security entirely online. This allows for more flexibility to the busy student as they progress through the criminal justice field.
Increasingly, more criminal justice graduate programs are turning to online learning methods to reach their changing and diverse student body. In order to find the right graduate school for you, researching ALL your options and aligning your lifestyle demands with what you want from a school will ensure that you find the right match in the end.
