Bachelor of Science - Business Management - Criminal Justice

The University of New Haven's Bachelor of Science - Business Management - Criminal Justice — and prepare to manage the security forces, cybersecurity professionals and other experts who stay one-step ahead of fraudsters and other white-collar criminals.

Students will have the skills and knowledge needed to direct such operations through a program that provides a powerful combination of human resource and financial management expertise, marketing and business strategy, and the critical competencies inherent in a criminal justice concentration. And that will make them a force to be reckoned with.

A partnership between two colleges brings students the best of both fields business management and criminal justice: Faculty members in the University’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences were instrumental in helping to design the program, and they will teach all of students' required courses in criminal justice. They will benefit from their real-world criminal justice experience and absorb their first-hand knowledge of white collar criminals at the same time they are learning how to manage a company’s internal fraud investigators, risk mitigators, and other personnel who work to keep businesses safe, strong, and stable.

Just doing it — the high-impact practical experience that gives students professional polish before they graduate: As part of the program, they will engage in writing an entrepreneurial business plan in their first year. In their senior year, they will be deployed on a consulting project, where they will work to solve a real business problem for a company whose employees will interact directly with them.

Students will also complete at least one internship and attend the many functions that the College sponsors. These will be their opportunities to network with alumni and established professionals and start relationships that can lead to their first position. Such networking can evolve into the stepping-stones that lead to the other positions that will advance their career as the years pass.