Doctoral Degree in Criminal Justice

Law enforcement professionals are increasingly turning to accredited online university programs to earn their doctoral degrees. For busy professionals, post-graduate degrees can qualify them for top-level management, consulting, and educational roles with business, law enforcement organizations (local, state, and federal), and with universities.

Online doctoral programs provide law enforcement professionals with a unique opportunity to advance their careers without disrupting their work or family schedules. Grads with a doctoral degree in criminal justice can work as consultants to the growing field of homeland security, with private security firms, or as researchers. Studies can include advanced criminology, organizational theory, public policy, and human resource management.

More than 96 percent of the nation's top colleges and universities today offer online courses and those online degrees from accredited schools are accepted by a majority of employers. Over 60 percent of today's chief academic officers concur that student performance in online learning is on a par with or better than in on campus programs.