Associates of Arts Degree -
Criminology Specialization & Community, Crime, and Social Justice Certificate Program

Career Opportunities

A wide variety of career and employment opportunities exist for those with credentials in criminology including: law enforcement, Human Rights Commissions, and Provincial and Federal Departments of Justice and Solicitor General, private security, private investigating, customs/immigration, corrections, probation, courts, intelligence gathering, law, counselling and in business.

Career/Employment Opportunities for Criminology Graduates

• Law Enforcement
  • RCMP
  • Municipal Police Services in BC
    • Vancouver Police Department
    • Victoria Police Department
    • Delta Police Department
    • Abbotsford Police Department
    • New Westminster Police Department
    • Port Moody Police Department
  • First Nations Policing
    • RCMP - First Nations Police Services
    • RCMP Aboriginal Youth Training Program
    • Blood Tribe Police
    • Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council (DOTC) Police Department
    • Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service
    • Anishnaabe Police Department
  • Transit Police
    • Vancouver Transit Police
• Intelligence Gathering
  • Canadian Security Intelligence Service (C.S.I.S)
• Corrections
  • Correctional Service of Canada
• Public Service
  • Public Service Commission of Canada
  • Human Resource and Skills Development Canada
  • BC Public Service
  • Department of Justice Canada
  • Canadian Armed Forces
• Courts/Legal System
  • Legal Services Society BC
  • Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia (NCCABC)
  • Ministry of the Attorney General
• Forensics
  • BC Coroners Service
• Treatment Facilities - coming soon

Further Education Options
This program has been designed to facilitate maximum transferability to other
educational credentials at other post-secondary institutions, including an
undergraduate Bachelor’s degree program.

College and University Criminology Programs in Canada

Alberta

University of Alberta (Edmonton)
Bachelor of Arts - Criminology

Athabasca University (Athabasca)
Bachelor of Professional Arts – Criminal Justice

British Columbia

Douglas College (New Westminster)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminal Justice
(Offered in Conjunction with University College of the Fraser Valley)

Kwantlen University College (Surrey, Richmond)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology or Criminal Justice

Vancouver Island University (Nanaimo)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

Royal Roads University (Victoria)
Bachelor of Arts – Justice Studies

Simon Fraser University - School of Criminology (Burnaby)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

University of the Fraser Valley (Abbotsford)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminal Justice

Manitoba

University of Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

New Brunswick

St. Thomas University
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

Nova Scotia

St. Mary’s University (Halifax)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

Ontario

Brock University (St. Catherines)
Bachelor of Arts – Psychology, Political Science, or Sociology

Carleton University (Ottawa)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

Nipissing University (North Bay)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminal Justice

University of Guelph (Guelph)
Bachelor of Arts –Criminal  Justice or Law Enforcement Administration

University of Ottawa (Ottawa)
Bachelor of Social Sciences – Criminology

University of Toronto (Toronto)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

University of Waterloo (Waterloo)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology or Legal Studies

University of Windsor (Windsor)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology, Combined Sociology and Criminology,
or Forensics and Criminology

York University (Toronto)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology

Montreal

University of Montreal (Montreal)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology
Bachelor of Science - Criminology

Saskatchewan

University of Regina (Regina)
BA – Police Studies or Justice Studies

Yukon

Yukon College (Whitehorse)
Northern Justice and Criminology Diploma

Forensics Programs

British Columbia Institute of Technology (Vancouver)
Advanced Specialty Certificate – Forensics
Bachelor of Technology - Forensics

University of Windsor (Windsor)
Bachelor of Science – Forensics

University of Windsor (Windsor)
Bachelor of Arts – Criminology and Forensics

Mount Royal College (Calgary)
Bachelor of Applied Justice Studies