Criminal Justice Track
Build the skills to protect, serve, and make an impact in your community.
BVU’s Criminology & Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice track prepares students for careers in law enforcement, corrections, courts, and federal agencies through hands-on learning and real-world experience. Students build career-ready skills in criminal law, investigations, courts, and corrections while learning from professionals with experience in the field.
Why study Criminology & Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice Track at BVU
A BVU Criminal Justice degree prepares you for careers across the justice system through hands-on training, real-world experience, and personalized faculty mentorship.
Diverse Career Pathways
Prepare for careers in law enforcement, corrections, courts, and federal agencies.
Practical Training
Develop your skills through internships, simulations, and the MILO training simulator.
Professional Development
Access funding for certifications, travel, and career-building opportunities.
Faculty Mentorship
Learn from experienced professionals who have worked throughout the justice system.
Gain Real-World Skills
Build real-world experience through internships, simulations, and partnerships with regional agencies and organizations. BVU’s Value Added Funding initiative can help support internships, certifications, travel, and other professional experiences that prepare you for your future career.
Learn by doing, from day one
Students build career-ready skills through hands-on coursework in law enforcement, courts, corrections, and criminology
Explore criminal justice systems, criminology, psychology, sociology, and law enforcement fundamentals, while training in simulations
Develop skills in criminal law, courts, corrections, criminal procedure, and investigations, and hands-on crime scene exercises
Apply advanced knowledge through internships, advanced simulations, specialized coursework, and capstone experiences
BVU criminology & criminal justice: criminal justice track graduates go far.
Beth Sibenaller '19, Special Agent II, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations
Beth is one of our first graduates who went through our expanded criminology and criminal justice major, while also double-majoring in Spanish. She made her mark on campus by giving campus tours, completing internships, playing on the women's basketball team, and studying abroad in Spain.
Where this degree can take you
MILO Training Simulator
Students benefit from access to innovative tools such as the MILO Training Simulator, a high-fidelity training system offering immersive, scenario-based law enforcement exercises. This simulator enhances decision-making, use-of-force judgment, and de-escalation strategies in a safe, controlled environment that replicates real-world law enforcement encounters.
Curriculum Highlights.
Your coursework is designed to build the knowledge and skills needed for success in your field. Click here for complete program requirements and course descriptions in the Academic Catalog.
Lead with Purpose. Serve Your Community.
Turn your interest in criminal justice into hands-on experience and career-ready skills at BVU.