<p>What high paying jobs (other than lawyer ) can u get if u major in criminology or criminal justice?</p>
<p>Why would anyone on earth go through four years of expensive college to major in criminal justice? The only jobs you can get is in security/law enforcement, which anyone without 4 years of college and no major in criminal justice could get. C</p>
<p>Criminology is a little different but what jobs could you get with that too?</p>
<p>They both seem like useless degrees.</p>
<p>Anyone?</p>
<p>To anyone seriously considering law enforcement or criminal justice, I would recommend they speak with recruiters -- see what their take is on what are desired majors of study. I do believe that sometimes majors exist without much of a real world equivalent job market to take them.</p>
<p>I think if I were an FBI recruiter, I'd want a Math major rather than someone who is just in criminal justice.</p>
<p>One would be better prepared for Law School majoring in Eng/PoliSci/Soc/Econ/Hist (lots of reading) rather than Crim Justice I believe.</p>
<p>Here's why a college education will pay out in the long run:</p>
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<li><p>You never know what you might be doing in 10 years or so. People move, get married, get promoted into similar fields and more than 50% of your education will be in classes that are common to many different jobs.</p></li>
<li><p>Even if you stayed in the same field forever, you'd get paid more money than someone without the degree. This is especially true in the public sector of jobs (Federal and state). The pay you received will be based on your maximum number of years in school and degree.</p></li>
<li><p>Future advancement or supervisor positions will almost always require a degree in something.....maybe not specifically criminology or criminal justice, but everything you have will help.</p></li>
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<p>Talking to recruiters makes a lot of sense. FBI entry point skills: <a href="http://www.fbijobs.gov/1112.asp#6%5B/url%5D">http://www.fbijobs.gov/1112.asp#6</a></p>
<p>My hair stylist has a 4 year degree in criminal justice. She said it was a big waste of money. She really likes what she does so maybe criminal justice just wasn't her thing.</p>
<p>There are various degrees of criminal justice education ranging from ITT and other technical/regional type schools, to community colleges, to State Universities to private schools.<br>
The College of Criminal Justice offers a five-year bachelor of science program rooted in Northeastern's renowned system of cooperative education, which lets you alternate periods of learning in the classroom with periods of learning in the workplace.</p>
<p>My son is a criminal justice student at Northeastern. He is studying Arabic and is interested in federal government work.
Students in the program can go into corrections, legal studies, security, investigation, parole and probation work, social work, forensics, etc. </p>
<p>Mixer has it right about degrees. You can be a police officer without a college degree but you will earn more and be advanced more quickly with the degree. That is just one example. </p>
<p>TE may be right about law school. As far as the FBI is concerned, there are specific elements in the link above that they look for. Language is one, accounting is another, etc. </p>
<p>I'm curious about the original poster. Why do you ask? Are you considering a criminal justice major ?</p>