MPSLA Public Safety Leadership and Administration (Executive Police Administration) at Arizona State University

Programme overview

If you are a public safety professional, the Master of Public Safety Leadership and Administration degree program is designed for you. This advanced degree helps you progress in your career within public safety administration by giving you an important advantage: a practical understanding of public safety organization administration. This graduate program, through its accomplished faculty and intricately connected curriculum, advances your leadership, policy and administrative acumen.

What you will study

30 credit hours - course-based master's Required Core (15 credit hours) CRJ 510 Criminal Justice Planning and Program Evaluation (3) CRJ 574 Executive Leadership Principles in Public Safety (3) PAF 506 Public Budgeting and Finance (3) PAF 507 Public Human Resource Management (3) PAF 508 Organization Behavior (3) Concentration (9 credit hours) CRJ 512 Seminar in Policing (3) or CRJ 527 Police Accountability (3) CRJ 515 Seminar in Women and Crime (3) or CRJ 518 Seminar on Race/Ethnicity, Crime and Justice (3) CRJ 516 Seminar in Criminal Justice Organization and Management (3) Electives or Research (6 credit hours) Additional Curriculum Information This master's degree is a course-based program.

Career pathways

Graduates are equipped to perform managerial duties in federal, state, local, territorial and tribal law enforcement agencies. They also are prepared for roles in probation and parole, child support services, homeland security and allied security professions. Career examples: chief of police, first-line police supervisor, police detective, police dispatcher, special agent.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. Applicants are eligible to apply if they have earned a bachelor's or master's degree in criminology or criminal justice, public administration or public service, sociology or social work, public safety or fire service management, parks and recreation management, applied sciences or another closely related field from a regionally accredited institution. Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program, or applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.

Entry terms: Fall, Spring and Summer; the terms available for each programme are listed in Degree Search.

Graduate application deadlines are set by each programme office and listed in Degree Search; the application opens almost a year before the start term. The nonrefundable application fee is $75 for U.S. citizens, permanent residents, DACA and international online students outside the U.S., and $120 for international students on a nonimmigrant visa studying in the U.S. Apply with ASU's graduate application (Law applicants use the law college's site); GRE/GMAT requirements vary by programme.

Apply through the official page: https://admission.asu.edu/apply/graduate/admission

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