2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Accelerated Criminology and Criminal Justice M.S.


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(36 Credits)

The MS in Criminology and Criminal Justice is available in an accelerated format. The requirements are identical in the accelerated format. The 4+1 combines undergraduate and graduate courses to allow students to complete a Master’s degree in 5 years. 

Undergraduate students in criminology and criminal justice, cybercriminology and security studies, and intelligence analysis can choose to begin their senior year at ISU with dual enrollment in both degree programs. In their senior year, students will have provisional graduate admission until the Bachelor’s degree is awarded with a final cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or above. For provisional graduate admission, the following are required: 3.0 overall GPA, completed at least 96 undergraduate credits.

 

 

Special Topics (3 Credits)


Directed Electives (21 Credits)


9 credits must be at the 600 level or above; only 9 credits may be taken outside of the major. Credits outside of the major require advisor approval.

Culminating Experience:


Successful completion of a comprehensive written examination.

Note:


Courses in the 500 series are open to undergraduates as *400 series. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature. A course taken at the 400 level may not be repeated at the 500 level.

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