This five-year program makes it possible for qualified students to
earn a baccalaureate degree from the Newark College of Arts and
Sciences and a master's degree from the School of Criminal Justice. The
program is designed for the highly motivated student who, at an early
stage, has decided to pursue a career in the criminal justice field.
Program requirements are
1. a minimum of 100
undergraduate credits in liberal arts subjects, including satisfactory
completion of the general curriculum requirements of the Newark College
of Arts and Sciences;
2. completion of an undergraduate major at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences;
3. a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 or better at the Newark
College of Arts and Sciences and a Graduate Record Examination
test score (junior year) acceptable to the School of Criminal Justice.
Careful planning is necessary to complete the undergraduate
requirements specified within a 100-credit framework. Accordingly, the
program is ordinarily open only to students who matriculate as
first-year students at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences or
to those who transfer with no more than 30 credits.
Students
interested in this program should contact the Office of Student Affairs
during their first year; an official declaration of intent must be
filed during the sophomore year. Application for early admission to the
School of Criminal Justice is then made at the beginning of the second
term of the junior year. (Applications, catalogs, and additional
information about the School of Criminal Justice may be obtained at the
Rutgers Center for Law and Justice, 123 Washington Street.) Students
who meet at least the minimum qualifications specified above must
secure a recommendation from the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs,
which should be forwarded to the School of Criminal Justice with their
application for admission. In all cases, the School of Criminal Justice
reserves the right to deny admission to applicants it deems
unqualified. Students who do not qualify for admission to the graduate
program at the end of the junior year may apply or reapply upon
graduation from the Newark College of Arts and Sciences, but admission
to the School of Criminal Justice is not guaranteed.
Those
students accepted by the School of Criminal Justice receive their B.A.
or B.S. degree from the Newark College of Arts and Sciences upon
satisfactory completion of 24 credits in the graduate program. Upon
satisfactory completion of the remaining requirements of the School of
Criminal Justice, a master of arts degree is awarded. Upon
admission to the School of Criminal Justice, students are bound by the
academic regulations and degree requirements of that school.
