LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

2024-2025 CATALOG

The Academic Catalog is the official listing of courses, programs of study, academic policies and degree requirements for Loyola University Chicago. It is published every year in advance of the next academic year.

Criminal Justice and Criminology (BS/MA)

BS/MA FIVE YEAR PROGRAM

The BS/MA program enables high achieving undergraduate majors to begin fulfilling requirements for a master's degree while completing the bachelor's degree. The program is designed so that students may complete their MA degree in one year after graduating with their BS degree rather than the traditional two years of study. BS/MA students will have more challenging courses during their senior year of study and will have broader career opportunities after completing the MA degree. Successful students have obtained desired careers, gained admission to law schools, or gained admission to PhD programs.

Loyola undergraduates with an overall GPA of 3.5 may apply for our combined BS/MA program in their junior year. Fall admitted BS/MA students will take 4 graduate (400 level) classes in their senior year that will count toward both their BS degree and their MA degree. Spring admitted BS/MA students will take 2 graduate (400 level) classes in their senior year that will count toward both degrees. Students should save their electives so that the graduate-level classes can count as electives in their major. Therefore, up to 15- of the 30-credit hour MA degree will be completed during the senior year of the undergraduate degree. Students, after graduating with their BS degree, will take the remaining 6 courses as a full-time graduate student during their fifth year at Loyola.

For additional information on this program, please contact Dr. Maribeth Rezey, Graduate Program Director, at mrezey@luc.edu