2025-2026 Graduate Academic Catalog 
    
    Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate Academic Catalog

Command Officer Management Executive Leadership Institute Program (Doctoral Level)


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This program is limited to active-duty full-time supervisors and command staff currently employed with a criminal justice agency. Students must be selected and sponsored by their respective agencies to attend. The COMS is offered only during the academic year and is scheduled one year in advance of a new academic year.

This program covers many vital topical areas of criminal justice administration, management, leadership, and legal concepts. The faculty teaching in this program are recognized experts in their respective fields and provide course instruction in a series of applied and theoretical active learning pedagogies.

Students are required to attend six (6) week-long courses and complete online work over a period of three semesters. Doctoral students who successfully complete this program earn eighteen (18) Doctor of Criminal Justice credit hours.

Total Credits: 18

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