The Master of Science in Criminal Justice at YSU provides professional
education of criminal justice personnel. The graduate program in Criminal
Justice adheres to the position that the administration of criminal
justice is a continuous integrated process from prevention of crime
through completion of all legal intervention. The program is designed
to provide society with individuals who have both a substantial awareness
of the overall system and the essential competencies required to perform
professional roles within the system. To achieve this objective, the
program broadens the student's knowledge of the total criminal justice
process and provides professional education so that its graduates
may assume positions of leadership within the criminal justice system.
The program has two options:
- Thesis Option requires 30 semester hours. The thesis project
itself counts as six of those 30 semester hours.
- Graduate Research Paper Option requires 35 semester hours. Students
select one of three emphasis areas of study: (a) Police Management,
(b) Correctional Administration and Treatment, (c) Criminal Justice
Studies and Research.
All students entering the Masters in Criminal Justice program
will be required to take the GRE, Millers, or LSAT, and obtain a satisfactory
score for admission into the program.
Regular Admission
To obtain regular admission, students must have an unrecalculated
GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, and a satisfactory standardized
test score. If a student meets these criteria, but has undergraduate
coursework deficiencies, they will be granted provisional admission.
Provisional Admission
To obtain provisional admission, students must meet two of the following
three criteria: an unrecalculated GPA of 2.75 or higher, a GPA of
3.2 or higher in the last 40 hours of course work, and a satisfactory
standardized test score.
Criminal justice faculty members are
currently involved in research in police management theory, applied
police management, correctional organization and treatment, and criminological
theory. Students are encouraged to participate in this ongoing research.
Graduate Student Handbook
(PDF)
MS Curriculum Sheet
(PDF)
For more information, contact the Criminal Justice Department's Graduate
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