Master of Science in Crime Analysis (Online)

Help law enforcement solve crimes and learn to lead a crime analysis unit in the online crime analysis graduate program. You’ll gain a strong understanding of the fundamental issues, strengths and limitations associated with crime analysis.

- As a learner in the crime analysis graduate program, you’ll gain a strong understanding of the fundamental issues, strengths, and limitations associated with crime analysis. You’ll become familiar with the terminology, principles and techniques crime analysts use every day. And you’ll learn how to determine who is more likely to commit various types of crimes as well as when and where.

- Our curriculum also covers qualitative and quantitative analysis strategies, when and how to use different statistical procedures and how to interpret tests, graphics and data using the same software and data tools applied in the field today. These tools include geographic information system (GIS) software for crime mapping, social network analysis (SNA) software to determine links within criminal networks, statistical packages such as SPSS or STATA and others.