Bachelor in Crime and Justice

This program prepares students for jobs and careers in any of the three major areas of the criminal justice system: law enforcement, the course, and corrections.

Combine courses from Albright’s Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology programs to gain a broad knowledge of criminal deviance and societal responses to crime.

Students majoring in Crime and Justice at Albright College pursue a wide range of legal, political, administrative, psychological, and sociological analysis. Graduates move into careers in the police and security fields (including FBI and secret service), the legal bar, the judiciary system, corrections, and probation.

Albright’s early history involves multiple moves and mergers. The College dates its beginning to the founding of Union Seminary in 1856. The present Albright College was formed by a series of mergers with other institutions of higher learning founded in the 19th century by the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church. Union and Schuylkill Seminaries were not theological seminaries but were three-year collegiate institutes, the origin of the college’s liberal arts tradition.

Albright Collegiate Institute was founded in 1895 and became Albright College in 1898. Union Seminary, founded in 1856 and rechartered as Central Pennsylvania College in 1887, merged with Albright College in 1902. Schuylkill Seminary, founded in 1881, became Schuylkill College in 1923 and merged with Albright College in 1929. With the merger, Albright moved from its campus in Myerstown, Pa., to Schuylkill College’s location on the present Albright campus.