Master of Criminal Justice Administration
If you have a background in criminal justice or a related field, Mountain State University's Master of Criminal Justice Administration can help you advance in your career.
The master's in criminal justice administration is an individualized program that can be tailored to your own interests and goals.
A flexible format will allow you to work toward your degree part time or at a distance. You will also be able to tailor your study to your specific professional context and to use your current work environment as a setting for action research.
What is the scope of study?
While you may structure your studies around an area of specific interest, standardized concentrations are available for a wide range of high-demand fields:
- Correctional Counseling. Focuses on early intervention, pretrial counseling, and supervision and parole.
- Corrections Administration. Focuses on social and behavioral aspects of the offender, counseling, communication, accounting and finance, and comparative studies.
- Education and Training. Focuses on organizing and carrying out training programs, with coursework in educational strategies and public policy.
- Enforcement and Investigation. Focuses on supervision of enforcement, interdiction, investigation, and management of crime scenes.
- Forensic Science Management. Focuses on management of a trained scientific workforce, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of forensic investigation.
- Police Administration. Focuses on management and administrative functions of law enforcement and private security agencies.
- Theoretical Justice. Incorporates diverse paradigms of criminological thought, causality of crime, purpose of law and sanctions, and theoretical solutions to crime and deviance, for those planning to work in policy analysis or enter doctoral study.