What are the best colleges to apply for International Relations & Criminology (can apply in state for either VA or FL)?
UMD CP is topnotch for both but there’s a secondary selection process and merit scholarships are rare so your stats would have to be at the level of the Honors/Scholars programs for you to have a shot.
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My understanding is that for “limited enrollment programs” such as the criminology and criminal justice major (international relations is not limited at UMD), many students are directly admitted to the major. Those not directly admitted can transfer until the major after meeting gateway requirements.
The UMD CCJS secondary admission for those not directly admitted is described at Declaring the CCJS Major | CCJS l Criminology and Criminal Justice Department l University of Maryland . The UMD CCJS major appears to be a combination of research focus (what might be called a criminology major or criminology subarea of sociology) and pre-professional applied focus (what might be called a criminal justice major).
Do you have cost constraints that require keeping the cost down to in-state public levels, or some other type of cost constraints?
If you have any cost constraints, use the net price calculator on each college of interest to check affordability.
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Nope! Just saying for acceptance rate purposes.
What line of work would you be leaning towards?
In Florida
Florida State
USF
In Virginia
GMU
Out of State (a sampling)
American
University of Denver
St. John’s (NY)
Whittier College
Can you elaborate on your interests in these fields? Do you envision some way of combining them, or are they just two potential options you want to keep open? In terms of IR, is there a particular region or foreign language of interest?
I’m interested in both, and I feel like they go really hand in hand with each other and make a unique skill set. Overall though, I’m looking for an IR career, not one linked to a specific region though.
It sounds like you are most interested in IR. I’d pick an IR school and then take the criminology courses that are offered or take biology courses that can lead to crime investigation and reporting.
In the recent trial I watched, the experts in blood splatters, etc, were biologists. The other experts on the traffic accident (car damage, computer data) were engineers or medical doctors. The experts on the phone data were IT guys.
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The above describes various professionals qualified to testify as experts during legal proceedings. As a subfield of sociology, criminology differs in its orientation.
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