Overview

Our department is over 40 years old and employs award-winning faculty who teach and conduct research on a broad range of social problems. The department fosters intellectual curiosity in all of our students and many are directly involved in faculty research projects.

We offer a bachelor of arts degree in criminology and criminal justice, as well as undergraduate minors in criminology and criminal justice and cyber criminology.  At the graduate level, we offer a master’s of science degree in criminology & criminal justice. We are a large and growing department, with approximately 1400 majors, 750 minors, and 30 graduate students.

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Watch this video to learn more about the department and hear our students talk about their passion for solving problems and how our program gives them an opportunity to discover and explore what fascinates them.

Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice from UA College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.