Your Future in Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Administration (CJA) Program at Mansfield University offers degree options in the academic and professional disciplines of criminal justice and criminology that will prepare you for entry into either a professional career or a graduate education in criminal justice. We offer a bachelor's degree, an associate's degree offered on campus and online, and our partnership with the Municipal Police Academy means you can earn your degree and your Act 120 Certification. The program encourages extra-curricular activities that provide opportunities for students to develop leadership skills which includes national clubs and organizations along with special events with the program. The program's core curriculum covers areas such as law enforcement, courts, corrections and juvenile delinquency.
In January, fourteen members of the Mansfield University chapter of Lambda Alpha Epsilon (LAE), the American Criminal Justice Association, traveled to Allenwood, Pennsylvania for a tour of Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood. The students spent three hours on a tour guided by facility staff. LAE is an active organization on campus with LAE members participating in community service, fund raising, and professional events.
What Can I Study?
- B.S. in Criminal Justice Administration
- CJA/Act 120 Pathway Program
- A.S. in Criminal Justice Administration
- Minor in Criminal Justice Administration
New CJA/Act 120 Pathway Program
Trent Dunlap, a Criminal Justice Administration major, is also completing the Act 120 Municipal Police Academy via Mansfield University's CJA Act 120 Pathway Program. He will graduate from Mansfield University with his Act 120 police officer certification AND a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice Administration. The Pathway Program allows students to obtain their university degree and police officer certification within four years.
Under the Pathway program students spend their first two years of criminal justice classes in the classroom. Following their sophomore year, the students enter the Act 120 Municipal Police Academy. After completing the academy curriculum students re-enter the university classroom in the Spring semester of their junior year and continue on to complete their Bachelor's degree.
Mansfield University is the only state university to offer the Pathway Program.
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