What can you do with a
Criminal Justice Degree?
The criminal justice practitioner deals with the broad areas of law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Professional positions may include police work, juvenile probation or parole work, or counseling and correctional work in institutions, group homes, or halfway houses. Within these broad areas the practitioner enjoys exciting professional challenges and opportunities for serving society and helping people.
Alumni work in law enforcement, courts, correctional agencies, probation and parole departments, and do so at the local, state and federal levels. Types of agencies which have employed our graduate include: police departments, sheriff’s departments, planning agencies, group homes, juvenile courts, family courts, probation and parole departments, juvenile and adult correctional institutions, halfway houses, and crime and delinquency prevention programs.
Graduates of our program have gone on to work with the following agencies
Local/County |
State |
Non-Profit/Private Agency Positions |
Emergency dispatcher |
Gaming enforcement officer | Domestic Violence victims advocate |
| Traffic officer | State patrol officer | Sexual Assault victims advocate |
| Police officer | Corrections officer | Corporate Crisis Management |
| Probation Officer | Parole officer | Executive Protection |
| Community service officer | Special agent:Bureau of Criminal Investigations | Private Corrections Officer |
| Juvenile Detention officer | Fingerprint technician | Security Specialist |
| Corrections officer | Records specialist | Provate Security Officer |
| Court Bailiff | Human rights investigator | Private Detective |
| Court security | Research analyst | Fraud Investigator |
| Emergency call center operator | Bondsman | |
| Presentence investigator | ||
| Water patrol officer | ||
| Sheriff's deputy | ||
| Records Clerk | ||
| Police-School liason | ||
| Investigator |
Federal Agencies |
Bureau of Corrections |
Internal Revenue Services |
U.S. Secret Service |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms |
Coast Guard |
U.S. Postal Service |
Military Service |
Department of Defense |
Immigration and Naturalization Services |
Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Defense Security Service |
Department of Homeland Security |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration |
U.S. Marshals |
Customs Border Protection |
Department of the Interior |