Engineering vs Criminal Justice?

fa-la-la-lena
Tue, 17 May 2011 04:34:53 +0000

Just because you are an engineer doesn’t mean you can’t do stuff within law enforcement as well. More particularly - if you are interested in criminal justice/law enforcement related careers, I’d highly recommend majoring in computer science/computer engineering. For example; the National Security Agency recruits a ton of civil engineering/computer science/math majors for signals intelligence-related fields such as cryptology, the FBI does too…in fact, computer science/information technology is one of the headings under which the FBI recruits special agents. If you end up not wanting to go into law enforcement, engineering/computer science is a lot more versatile in terms of careers (and you’ll make a lot more money too). To me, criminal justice is kind-of a useless major unless you pair it with something else. A lot of times, law enforcement careers are better suited for other majors anyways.