M.S. Criminal Justice
Master of Science in Criminal Justice
Key Features
- Flexible program: hybrid or fully online
- Enroll at your own pace with full-time or part-time options
- Multiple start terms: Enroll in the Fall, Spring or Summer.
- Option to specialize in: Cybersecurity, Leadership of Public Administration
Scholarship available via tuition discount for active duty military, veterans, and first responders.
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Community Researcher, Professor of Criminal Justice
"My work in the community keeps both my feet firmly rooted to the practitioner world. It certainly makes me a better teacher. I work hard to find the intersections of how the classroom experience intersects with the real-world."
Sean Varano considers himself a community researcher, and for good reason. He has years of experience developing, implementing and evaluating evidence-based approaches to crime and public health programs in the local community. He's served as the Local Action Research Partner to the New Bedford Police Department since 2006; and is the co-principal investigator/evaluator for the City of Providence’s Project Safe Neighborhoods gang reduction program and also for the Olneyville Housing Corporation's Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation grant. Both federally funded initiatives intend to reduce crime by addressing the underlying factors that increase the likelihood of crime and disorder. Most recently, Varano has been taking on a new issue, which has been devastating much of New England: The opioid epidemic.
Sean Varano, Professor
Criminal Justice Faculty