What Can I Do with My Criminal Justice and Security Studies Degree?
There are many diverse career paths that the criminal justice and security studies major can choose after graduation. The program prides itself on providing its students with ample opportunities to succeed after graduation. An active internship program provides experience that improves the success rate of graduates.
Some graduates choose law enforcement, criminal investigation, intelligence, probation and parole counseling, research, consumer advocacy and international services. Positions are available with correctional agencies at the federal, state and county level; in municipal, county and state law enforcement agencies, as well as with some prosecutor and public defender's offices as online investigators. Positions are also available in industrial security, the consumer advocacy arena and with select law firms as possible paralegals.
The Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at the University of Dayton offers its majors the opportunity to network and gain additional career skills by joining the student organizations Omega Phi Delta and Alpha Phi Sigma.