Application ProceduresApplicants must submit an application for admission to UMKC and transcripts of their undergraduate work to the university Office of Admissions. Additionally, applicants must submit a writing sample to the department's Admissions Committee. This writing sample should be a two to three page letter requesting admission to the program. In the letter, applicants should identify how their undergraduate education and their work or personal experience has prepared them for graduate study in the area of criminal justice and criminology. Also, the letter should address how applicants view study in our graduate program as fitting with their future career or educational goals. The writing sample is to be sent directly to the principal graduate adviser for the M.S.-CJC program at the department address. Applicants for the spring term must have all materials to the admissions committee by November 1, and those applying for fall semester or summer term admission must have materials in by April 1, or March 1 to be considered for graduate teaching or research assistantships.The department strongly recommends that application materials be submitted at least five months before the anticipated date of initial enrollment to ensure all materials will be on hand in time for review. Decisions regarding admission to the graduate program are made by the graduate faculty of the program. Materials are reviewed with attention to past academic performance and substantive areas of study that would prepare students for CJC graduate study.
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