Career Options
Careers Available with a Criminal Justice or Police Studies Degree
- State and local law enforcement officers
- School resource officers
- Park ranger
- Sheriff’s deputies
- Officers with federal agencies like:
- U.S. Secret Service
- Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms
- F.B.I.
- U.S. Border Patrol
- Transportation Security Administration
- U.S. Marshals
- Crime policy analyst
- Family service counselor
- Attorney or judge (additional law degree required)
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Department of
Homeland Security
- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- US Border Patrol
- Criminal Investigator
Criminal Justice or Police Studies as a Pre-Law Major
Over the past years graduates of the College's Police Studies and Criminal
Justice Programs have gone on to law school and are now pursuing careers in law.
However, it should be noted that law school admissions officials do not give any
special advantage to applicants who have pursued undergraduate majors in
criminal justice. Indeed, a student's undergraduate major is not a particularly
important criterion affecting law school admissions decisions. What is far more
important is that, regardless of major, the prospective law student will have
pursued a rigorous curriculum that requires superior skills in writing, reading
comprehension, and analytical ability, the Criminal Justice and Police Studies
Programs are designed to do just that.
