GRADUATE PROGRAMS

PhD Program

About The Program

Along with the College of Criminal Justice Faculty and Staff, Dean Greene is pleased to announce that the new Criminology and Justice Policy Ph.D. was launched in the fall of 2004. Recently approved by the NU Board of Trustees, this announcement follows nearly three years of efforts on the part of the faculty and administration to both research the national landscape of criminal justice- oriented doctoral programs and design a ground breaking, innovative program that meets the needs of a rapidly changing criminal justice environment. The program focuses on applied research with a strong urban focus to prepare highly-skilled criminal justice faculty and scholars, applied researchers and senior agency administrators.

The program consists of 64 semester hours of course work (32 beyond the semester-based master's degree requirements). Students are required to take a series of eight theory and methods core courses, including Criminology, Criminal Justice Process, a law course, Advanced Criminological Theory, Research Methods with lab, Evaluation Methods, Statistics with lab, and Multivariate Statistics, in addition to two third year practica and twelve elective courses (Sample Program).