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College education is often becoming required for police officers prior to entering the police force, one organization that supports this notions is the American Police Association. The APA is a non-profit organization for college educated officers and provides a great deal of useful information for police officers.
The following table is a complete list of universities which offer a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Criminal Justice. Some of the schools which offer a Doctor of Criminology (D.Crim.), or Doctor of Philosopy in Public Administration concentrating in Criminal Justice or Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology concentrating in Criminology are also included.
Most Criminal Justice doctoral programs require GRE scores or LSAT scores to become a doctoral student. Many programs state they require an exam for "candidacy" to the doctoral program, but becoming a doctoral "candidate" is not the same as being a doctoral "student".
Usually one becomes a doctoral candidate after he/she has taken all the required courses, written the first part of the dissertation called a Prospectus, and has passed one or more of the candidacy exams. These exams are, hopefully, the last exams the doctoral student will ever take and after completing all of the above the student earns the right to be called a "doctoral candidate" and have the initials A.B.D. (All But Dissertation) after his/her name. Once the dissertation is finished and successfully defended then the award of Ph.D. is granted.
Institutions offering a Doctor of Philosophy in Criminal Justice:| Rockefeller College State University of New York at Albany |
Arizona State University |
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| Univ. of California-Irvine | Claremont Graduate School |
| University of Cincinnati | University of Delaware |
| Florida State University | Indiana University at Bloomington |
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
John Jay University City University of New York |
| University of Maryland | Michigan State University |
| University of Nebraska | Penn State University |
| University of Missouri-St. Louis | Portland State University |
| Rutgers University | Sam Houston State University |
| Temple University |
Sociology - Criminology Washington State University |
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Sociology - Criminology Louisiana State University |
Sociology - Social Deviance Oklahoma State University |
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Sociology - Criminology
Ohio State University |
Public Administration Ohio State University, Criminal Justice |
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Sociology - Criminology Western Michigan University | University of Cambridge |