{"id":78002,"date":"2019-05-21T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=78002"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:43:00","slug":"graduate-certificate-in-crime-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/met\/programs\/criminal-justice\/graduate-certificate-in-crime-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Certificate in Crime Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<p>For contact information, please visit the Metropolitan College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/contact\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Available on campus and online, the Graduate Certificate in Crime Analysis at Boston University\u2019s Metropolitan College provides students with a set of courses that develops their ability to use and analyze a variety of data sources to inform the investigations, strategies, and policy decisions of criminal justice organizations. This set of skills is crucial to a growing field within law enforcement and related domains in criminal justice. Data-driven and intelligence-led approaches to crime have become the standard among contemporary criminal justice organizations. The certificate prepares students to fill in-house crime analyst or similar positions, and strengthens the skills of students working in investigations, management, and operations to utilize analysis more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>This program requires an average of 8\u201312 months to complete. Students may begin the program in the fall, spring, or summer term.<\/p>\n<h2>Learning Outcomes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare different sources of data for analysis (e.g., data reorganization, matching) and carry out analysis using a variety of different techniques, including mapping and spatial analysis and other advanced techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Incorporate analyses into effective analysis products (e.g., written reports, presentations, interactive dashboards) that are useful to investigation, strategy, and policy decisions within law enforcement organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Comprehend the ethical and legal rules and values that govern crime analysis within law enforcement organizations operating in democratic society.<\/li>\n<li>Inform and critically evaluate data-driven or intelligence-led investigations, strategies, and policies based on awareness of the contemporary law enforcement and security approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Admissions Information<\/h2>\n<p>For current admissions information, please visit the Metropolitan College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/admissions\" data-gc-link=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/admissions\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Certificate Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>A total of four courses (16 units) is required, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CJ 591 Applied Analytical Methods<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CJ 612 Crime and Intelligence Analysis<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET UA <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>598 Foundations of<\/span><\/span> GIS and Spatial Analysis<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">One course from the list below:\n<ul>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CJ 640 Performance Management Analytics<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CJ 705 Threat Assessment<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CJ 840 Applied Crime Analysis Project<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CS 521 Information Structures with Python<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CS 555 Foundations of Machine Learning<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CS 677 Data Science with Python<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">MET CS 699 Data Mining<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact For contact information, please visit the Metropolitan College website. 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