Located in the largest city in Wisconsin, the school provides students in criminal justice and criminology an exceptional environment to learn. You’ll study the causes of crime, the impact of crime on individuals and society, and the criminal justice system.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be solidly prepared to succeed in a variety of settings, including government agencies, courts, the private sector, nonprofit agencies, and law enforcement agencies.

Graduates from this program have gone on to work as FBI agents, investigators, crime analysts, policy analysts, probation counselors, police officers, chiefs of police departments, victim advocates, and more!

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414-229-4852
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UW-Milwaukee
Northwest Quadrant – Building D
3rd Floor
2025 E Newport Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Group of diverse criminal justice & criminology graduating university students posing beneath a black and gold balloon arch.
Helen Bader School of Social Welfare students attending a graduation event in May 2024.

Impressive Students

Engaged Professionals

Graduates from our program are crime analysts, police officers, victim advocates, federal probation and parole officers, police chiefs, program administrators, corrections directors, and more.

Where do UW-Milwaukee criminal justice & criminology alumni work?

  • Businesses (crime analysts)
  • Correctional agencies – primarily probation & parole
  • District attorney’s office
  • Law enforcement fusion centers (crime analysts)
  • Police departments
  • Public defender’s office
  • Sheriff’s offices
  • Social service agencies assisting persons involved with the criminal justice system
  • Read more about criminal justice alumni from the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at UW-Milwaukee.