BS, Criminal Justice

The Criminal Justice Bachelor's degree program is available at the following campus:

• Florence, KY Campus

Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree – Criminal Justice Courses

The Criminal Justice programs at Beckfield College provide our students with the  skills and opportunities to pursue various criminal justice careers. This begins with training through the Criminal Justice courses available for students in our Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree program. The Criminal Justice course list includes Criminal Justice and Legal Research, White Collar Crime, Crime Scene Technology and Criminalistics, Criminal Evidence, and Criminal Law. This curriculum will help provide students with a foundation to enter into the criminal justice field. Students critically examine many of the trends and issues in Criminal Justice. In addition to highly qualified instructors, this program offers special guest speakers, field trips to off-site locations, and attendance at criminal trials and proceedings.

Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree – Elective and Criminal Justice Career Training Opportunities

The Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree program offers students two elective options:

• Addictions Counseling
  
• Justice and Study

The program offers students in the following criminal justice career training opportunities:

•   On-campus Crime Lab
•   Firearms Training Simulator (FATS) generates real-life experiences through virtual technology and advanced hands-on training. This highly realistic, interactive HD simulator trains people in real-time "shoot-don't-shoot", judgmental use of force scenarios involving policing situations, jail experiences, and simulated security circumstances.
• Center for Security and Crime Prevention.
  

Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree – Criminal Justice Graduate

Upon completion of the Bachelor's Degree program, graduates are able to demonstrate:

• Characteristics of self-direction and accountability with strong educational foundations for lifelong personal and professional growth.
• Critical thinking skills necessary to effectively address dilemmas and decisions that confront employees of the justice system on a daily basis.
•  Professionalism, initiative, leadership, and effective communication.
• The ability to function as a competent beginning practitioner in the student’s sub-field of choice.
• The ability to analyze complex criminal justice problems and to be able to generate ideas, whether working individually or collectively, to seek a practical and logical resolution to identified problems.
•  Competency with any and all necessary technologies pertinent to roles of beginning practitioners

Graduates with a Criminal Justice Bachelor degree will be prepared for career opportunities as a police officer, corrections officer, addictions counselor, probation and parole officer, correctional case worker, loss prevention manager, wildlife preservation officer, court programs specialist, and more. 

This program has been approved by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. 

What is the total cost of the Bachelor of Science program in Criminal Justice?

The cost displayed below assumes that

1) the student remains enrolled full-time,

2) no developmental courses are required,

3) no courses are credited by transfer or proficiency, and

4) no courses must be repeated because of failures or withdrawals.

Tuition:                                    $55,980 ($311 per credit hour)

Fees:                                        $  3,340

Equipment:                              $     200 (Netbook)     

Estimated cost Textbooks:      $  5,200

Total cost of program:            $64,720

Current Quarter textbook prices are available at http://www.beckfield.edu/about-us/book-price-listing.aspx.

How much student loan debt does a typical graduate have to repay after graduation?

The median loan debt of the program’s graduates is defined as the midpoint of all graduates’ loan debts upon graduation.

Department of Education privacy regulations determine that there were too few graduates during the July 1, 2010—June 30, 2011 period to report median loan debt.

What percent of graduates completes the program in the normal time frame as published in the catalog?

A continuously enrolled full-time student who successfully completes all of his or her courses will normally complete this program in 15 quarters. The time normally required for program completion may be reduced through courses credited by transfer or proof of proficiency, or extended by course failures and withdrawals, institutional withdrawals, leaves of absence, developmental courses, change of enrollment status from full-time to part-time, and change of program or change of an elective option within a program.

There were too few graduates during the July 1, 20109—June 30, 2011 period to report on-time graduate rate.

What percent of graduates found employment related to their field of study?

Placement is reported in the campus’ Campus Accountability Report to the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools. The most recent Report covers the period from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011.

“Placement” refers to employment in the field for which the graduate’s education has prepared him or her, or in a related field which requires substantial application of the skills and knowledge taught in the curriculum.

The placement rate is determined by dividing the number of available graduates placed by the total number of available graduates. The Accrediting Council does not require institutions to report placement for graduates who are not available for placement due to continuing education, active military duty, visa restrictions, or pregnancy, death, and health-related circumstances. Further information pertaining to the employment of graduates may be obtained from the College’s Office of Career Services at dfuller@beckfield.edu

For those who graduated from the program between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011, the career placement rate was 44.4%.

How can I find out more about this career?

Further information pertaining to occupational requirements and opportunities for graduates of this program is available at

http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/21-1092.00

http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/33-3021.02

http://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/33-3021.05

The Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code for this program is 43.0103.