I am 20 years old and am currently taking courses to complete an associates degree in CS. I don’t think the field is for me and have decided to pursue LE. I had a conversation with my counselor about my degree planning where she told me I can go through a program that offers an associates in science with a focus on law enforcement. Also there is a law enforcement career fair at my community college in a week where I intend on going to so I can ask questions to experienced people. In the mean time I have come here to ask if it is worth getting that associates in science as I feel I may never use it even if I resign from being a police officer. Should I go with a different degree like project management or marketing? I would like to eventually become a detective or FBI agent and was interested in the best possible pathway.
Best overall degree for LE?
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Doesnt matter. Some finance or psych degree for fbi. Ideally something you can use not in law enforcement.
DONT get a law enforcement or criminal justice degree, it wont help you much if at all in LE and you can really do anything with it when LE doesnt work out for you.
Don’t get a degree in criminal justice/law enforcement. Think of something you might be interested in doing if you were to not be in law enforcement and do that. What you major in is not important if you’re wanting to get into LE.