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Pursue the Career You’ve Always Wanted With a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Earning your Master’s in Criminal Justice isn’t just a great way to deepen your knowledge and broaden your capacity for public service. It’s also an excellent opportunity to advance your career in this often challenging, yet intensely fulfilling field.

You might already have a fundamental understanding of how the criminal justice system functions, but earning your Master’s in Criminal Justice will ensure that you remain on the cutting edge of security, safety, and technology.

Our accredited online Criminal Justice graduate program will provide you with an advanced understanding of criminal justice, fraud, and law-enforcement theory, along with best practices, ethics, the tools and strategies used to prevent and respond to cybercrime, and decision-making skills required for combating international crime and terrorism.

As a leader in criminal justice, you may be called upon to evaluate community-based justice to prevent crime, address cybercrime, terrorism, or forensics issues, prevent and manage fraud, and evaluate how technology is used as a crime-fighting tool, and that’s exactly what CSU Global’s program will train you to do.

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Courses in this Program

CSU Global’s accredited online Master’s in Criminal Justice Degree requires the completion of 36 core credits. (Some students may be required to take RES501 as part of their program if they have an undergraduate GPA below 3.00. In this case, the degree is 39 credits.)



Learning Outcomes

CSU Global’s online Criminal Justice Master’s Degree will provide you with a richer, deeper understanding of critical topics in criminal justice, with curriculum addressing:

  • Technology
  • Cybercrime
  • International crime
  • Terrorism
  • Ethics
  • Decision making
  • The impact of crime on society

Specific learning outcomes for this program also include being able to:

  • Describe crime and control from a range of theoretical and global perspectives.
  • Evaluate research design, data collection, and analytical method.
  • Discuss the roles, strategies, and impacts of effective leadership and management.
  • Evaluate the role of community-based justice in preventing crime.
  • Apply professional ethics and its importance in our criminal justice system.
  • Describe knowledge of high-tech and occupational crimes in cause, detection, investigation, prosecution, and prevention.
  • Evaluate how technology is used as an effective contemporary crime-fighting tool.

Finally, CSU Global’s partnership with important criminal justice agencies and associations ensures that our program and related specializations will provide the very latest information from the field, while also helping to build your professional network. Our partner agencies include:

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM)
  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
  • Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF)
  • Alpha Phi Sigma Honors Society

Affordable Tuition

As a not-for-profit public university, our goal at CSU Global is to make your online tuition cost as affordable as possible. We offer low-cost online degree tuition rates without taking anything away from the quality of the education you receive. We also lock in that low tuition rate with our tuition guarantee, and we provide additional discounted tuition rates for members of the armed forces and employees of our corporate affiliate partners.

Learn more about CSU Global tuition rates and explore financial aid options available that can help cover the cost of your education.

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Career Outlook

More Than 50,000 Related Job Openings

The BLS reports 51,700 openings for police and detectives projected each year, on average, from 2020-2030.

Common Job Titles

Some job titles commonly held by those who obtained a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice include: Forensic Investigator, Loss Prevention Agent, Corporate Investigator, Security Expert, Director of Fraud, or Magistrate

$66k+ Median Salary

According to the BLS, the average annual salary for Police and Detectives in 2021 was over $66k.

Program Accreditations and Rankings

#1

25 Best Online Master’s in Criminal Justice

Best Masters Programs ranked CSU Global #1 on its list of Best Online Master’s in Criminal Justice for 2020.

#3

Top Online Master's in Law Enforcement Administration Programs of 2022

Intelligent ranked CSU Global #3 on its list of Top Online Master's in Law Enforcement Administration Programs of 2022.

Best Online Master’s in Criminal Justice Program for Veterans

In 2022, U.S. News and World Report named CSU Global as the #17 Best Master's in Criminal Justice for Veterans.

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Institutional Accreditation

Institutional accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) means your degree comes from a top-quality, trusted university.

Seth Larson - M.S., Criminal Justice, 2018

CSU Global gave me the opportunity to participate in class and the ability to graduate in two years with my unconventional work week. I worked night shifts and would not have been able to take daily classes because of the times they had scheduled.

Seth Larson
M.S., Criminal Justice, 2018

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