This major is designed to prepare students for professional careers in the interdisciplinary field of public safety, including criminal justice and fire. Students will learn and apply business, leadership, communication, and ethical principles into their professional and personal training. Specifically, students will understand public safety as an integral part of community and be able to correlate proven skills and methods with practical application. Students also will be exposed a Christian faith formation, as well as critical precepts about ethical and moral decision-making and organizational codes of ethics.

Graduates with a degree in Public Safety Administration will be able to:

1. Integrate and apply an historical view and lessons learned in public safety administration, and their application to contemporary issues facing the public safety field.
2. Assess current status and identify trends regarding public safety issues and concerns.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of new analytical methodologies to remediate and/or solve problems.
4. Integrate business management skills and technical knowledge specific to public safety issues facing America.
5. Communicate effectively in digital and written formats.
6. Describe ethical issues facing public safety professionals and evaluate characteristics of personal and professional integrity and honesty.