Online Criminal Justice Programs

The M.S. in Criminal Justice features 100% online coursework that prepares you to pursue advanced professional roles in a broad range of criminal justice pursuits. Gain the knowledge and tools to shape public policy in response to contemporary issues in the criminal and juvenile justice systems while expanding your career options and boosting your earnings potential. The program includes a practical capstone project designed to address real-world challenges in the field, with a thesis option available for students interested in faculty-supervised research.

In this online program, you will:

• Analyze crime issues in contemporary settings, given the practical constraints of the justice system
• Study current societal trends and their impact on legal systems including criminal justice agencies, criminal courts, juvenile courts, mental health courts and civil courts
• Critically examine biological, psychological, sociological and economic theories of crime
• Compare criminal justice systems in the United States and selected countries from Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East
• Discern how crime theories relate to various modalities of cybercrime and victimization
• Conduct applied research through a capstone project or pursue original research through a faculty-guided thesis (depending on your selected track)

Prepare for leading roles in criminal justice, private security, nonprofit work, government or mental health with a criminal justice administration master’s degree. Strengthen your comprehension of research methodology, societal trends, ethics, leadership and authority patterns, formal and informal communication networks, and variables that can impact organizational effectiveness and change. The program includes a practical capstone project focused on real-world criminal justice administration challenges, with a thesis option available for students interested in conducting faculty-supervised research.

In this online criminal justice administration program, you will:

• Understand how leadership and authority patterns, informal and formal communication networks, and diverse variables impact organizational effectiveness and change, including program evaluation and implementation
• Conduct applied research through a capstone project or pursue original, faculty-supervised research through a thesis, depending on your selected track

Gain in-demand technical expertise and credentials to advance your career in criminal justice, private security, nonprofit work, government and mental health with an online cyber security degree. With no coding experience necessary, courses add coding skills with an array of criminal justice applications to your skillset and prepare you to combat cybercrime with upgraded understanding of digital forensics, cyber investigations and malware analysis. The program includes a practical capstone project focused on real-world cybersecurity challenges in criminal justice, with a thesis option available for students interested in conducting faculty-supervised research.

In this online M.S. in cybersecurity program, you will:

• Design, code, test and debug programs that effectively utilize functions, data structures, object-oriented programming and file processing
• Apply programming problem-solving skills to criminal justice applications
• Learn how to analyze and address issues with various types of cybercrime
• Comprehend organizational theories, models and typologies for investigating and understanding individual and interpersonal dimensions and operations of criminal justice systems
• Conduct applied research through a capstone project or pursue original, faculty-supervised research through a thesis, depending on your selected track

Prepare for doctoral study or expand your career options in the dynamic field of homeland security. Led by faculty with real-world security and counterterrorism experience, this online homeland security degree enhances your understanding of the threat of domestic and international terrorism within a historical context and from a global perspective. Coursework focuses on border issues, infrastructure protection and homeland security strategies and policy. The program includes a practical capstone project addressing real-world homeland security challenges, with a thesis option available for students interested in conducting faculty-supervised research.

In this online homeland security master’s degree, you will:

• Evaluate the roles of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies in addressing threats from domestic and international extremists
• Assess the challenges and policies related to illegal immigration within the context of homeland security
• Examine border security strategies and their effectiveness in safeguarding national security
• Conduct applied research through a capstone project or pursue original, faculty-supervised research through a thesis, depending on your selected track

Expand your career opportunities and prepare for management roles with a TAMIU Master of Business Administration in Criminal Justice degree. In this Criminal Justice MBA online, you will gain valuable leadership experience, broaden your business knowledge, and refine your abilities that are desirable for both private and public employers. The coursework in this AACSB-accredited program includes a thorough examination of management, marketing, accounting, research, managerial economics, financial statement analysis, and more. Criminal Justice courses focus on research methodology, white-collar crime, and cybercrime.

In the MBA - Criminal Justice online program, you will learn to:

• Analyze various domestic and international laws pertaining to cybercrime
• Distinguish and explain cybercrime offending and victimization
• Describe and recognize key elements of criminological theories and provide examples of how theory development has impacted criminal justice practices
• Describe what policy is and how it is made
• Explain what evidence-based policy is and describe the reasons why it is beneficial