Want to change the world? Passionate about justice, the law and human rights? The Law and Society major with Social Justice concentration provides students with the opportunity to focus on various areas including constitutional and human rights law, as well as the issues and implications for social justice relating to disability, healthcare, the environment, elderly care, psychology, sex and gender.

A number of Law and Society Ramapo graduates enter law school each year including Boston College Law School, Georgetown Law, New York Law School, Pace Law School, Rutgers School of Law, John Jay College, Seton Hall, and Syracuse University. Ramapo also offers a joint B.A./J.D Degree with Seton Hall Law School; this guaranteed admissions program is designed so that high achieving high school students who meet outlined criteria can be accepted to Ramapo and be guaranteed admission to Seton Hall Law School four years later.

What You’ll Learn

Students will explore the intersection of human rights, the law, the role and impact of international institutions and structures on various international human rights problems and issues such as genocide, human trafficking, torture and other denials of fundamental human rights.

Courses will allow for the examination of environmental issues through a social justice lens, disability within their broadest possible legal and social context, addressing issues related to equity, rights, and social change. Furthermore, courses will examine the systemic inequalities based on race, gender, class, sexuality, age, and other identities, emphasizing the importance of advocacy and activism.

Do you enjoy solving problems? Interested in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or Information Technology? Want to use your programming powers for good? If so, you should consider majoring in Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity experts protect and defend software, systems and networks, ultimately safeguarding people in the digital realm.

Cybersecurity Roles

With the increase in cyberattacks, malware and hacking, along with a huge labor shortage in the field, there is a high demand for cybersecurity professionals. Organizations have a range of positions they need to fill. This includes roles such as computer forensic analysts, who have the knowledge and skills to recover data from devices and systems which, at times, may involve police investigations in cybercrimes. Network security engineers secure networks and protect data traveling from computer to computer over the internet. While machine learning engineers create algorithms for artificial intelligence to identify and defend against cyberattacks.

What You’ll Learn

The bachelor of science in Cybersecurity major is interdisciplinary, with the curriculum designed for students to develop their skills in programming, computer architecture, networking and cryptography. Foundational courses will ensure your understanding of security protocols, principles of information technology, as well as ethical and legal issues pertaining to computing technology and security. The training in this major will enable you to apply your knowledge in the real world, identifying and assessing cyber threats, vulnerabilities, testing and defending against common cyberattacks and more.

Interested in how the criminal justice system works and how you could improve it? Thinking about a career in law? The Law and Society major with Criminal Justice concentration provides students with the opportunity to focus on various areas including juvenile justice, forensic genealogy, and transitional justice, and issues relating to the death penalty, and wrongful convictions.

A number of Law and Society Ramapo graduates enter law school each year including Boston College Law School, Georgetown Law, New York Law School, Pace Law School, Rutgers School of Law, John Jay College, Seton Hall, and Syracuse University. Ramapo also offers a joint B.A./J.D Degree with Seton Hall Law School; this guaranteed admissions program is designed so that high achieving high school students who meet outlined criteria can be accepted to Ramapo and be guaranteed admission to Seton Hall Law School four years later.

What You’ll Learn

Students will gain an understanding of crime in its broad societal context—social, cultural, political, and economic, both nationally and internationally, and the criminal justice system.

The Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Certificate Program

Along with earning a B.A. in Law and Society with a concentration in Criminal Justice, those interested in forensic genetic genealogy may consider Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Certificate Program. IGG combines traditional genealogy and genetic genealogy to provide investigative leads in cases involving violent crime and unidentified human remains. IGG can also be used to help exonerate the wrongfully convicted.

The vision of the IGG Center is to secure justice through the ethical and proficient use of investigative genetic genealogy. The Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) program at Ramapo College of New Jersey is an entry-level course in the practical application of IGG on investigative cases. It is designed to teach students how to work an IGG case from beginning to end.

Students will apply their skills by working on a real, unsolved IGG case involving unidentified human remains. Those in our education programs, including the IGG Certificate Program, have helped to resolve nearly a dozen cold cases since its inception in 2023.

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Become a registered nurse in 16-months with an Accelerated Nursing degree from Ramapo College. The Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program opens doors to new opportunities for people with non-nursing degrees or who have a minimum of 60 credits from an accredited institution.

Ramapo College of New Jersey is an excellent choice for students serious about a career in nursing. Our prestigious clinical partnerships and highly acclaimed, state-of-the-art Adler Center for Nursing Excellence, provide an outstanding advantage for Ramapo’s nursing students.

Our 1 on 1 advisement provided through our pre-med club and advisor, and science faculty community support you on this journey as you embark on this goal. Below – you can explore the various options to enroll at Ramapo in the pre-med areas and find your place!

Find Out More About Pre-Med / Pre-Health Programs:

• Physical Therapy
• Medical Imaging Science
• Clinical Laboratory Science
• Chiropractic
• Optometry
• Podiatric Medicine
• Dentistry – Rutgers School of Dental Medicine

Articulation Agreements

• Dental Medicine Early Acceptance Program – Lake Erie College of Medicine (LECOM)
• Pharmacy Early Acceptance Program (3+4) – Lake Erie College of Medicine (LECOM)
• Touro College of Pharmacy (3+4)
• Medical College Early Acceptance Program (3+4) – (EAP and 4+4) – Lake Erie College of Medicine (LECOM)

Statistics is the science of designing studies or experiments, collecting data, and modeling/analyzing data for the purpose of decision making and scientific discovery. The ability to obtain, analyze and synthesize large amounts of data is key to most research in both the natural sciences and the social sciences. The Statistics minor is designed to encourage students of any discipline to gain a deeper understanding of statistics.

The Statistics Minor is also ideally suited to prepare students for actuarial science, graduate school, and careers in industrial statistics, biostatistics and research.

Ramapo College of New Jersey offers a mainly online, post-master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) designed for nurses seeking a terminal degree in nursing practice.

Ramapo’s 36-credit practice-based program offers an alternative to research-focused doctoral programs, placing greater emphasis on practice and less emphasis on theory, research methodology and statistics. DNP-prepared nurses are well equipped to fully implement the science developed by nurse researchers prepared in PhD, DNSc and other research-focused nursing doctorates.

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An Applied Mathematics degree can open doors into many different industries including operations research, data science, finance, statistics, and research. The mathematical reasoning, computational skills, and ability to apply them to solve real problems are all skills valued by employers and provide many of the goals of this program.

Being part of the Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences provides additional collaborative opportunities between the Applied Mathematics and the Data Science and Computer Science programs.  The intersecting curricula gives enrolled students an additional interdisciplinary perspective in all courses, including mathematics courses, which will make them highly effective team members in the workplace.

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Computer Scientists build software systems, drive progress in artificial intelligence, across nearly every modern business sector in our economy. Computer Scientists are employed by hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, financial and trading firms, sports teams, marketing agencies, and of course, tech companies. Glassdoor routinely ranks various software developer / computer science careers among the very top best jobs America, including Enterprise Architects, Mobile and Software Engineering, along with language specific careers focused on Java, C++, C# and web technologies.

Our Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) degree is a 30-credit program with course work in Theory of Computation, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Networks, Machine Learning and Database Systems, Full-time students will complete their degree in two years, however students may work towards the degree part-time as well. Courses are delivered as a combination of online, hybrid, and evening in-seat format.

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The MASE 4+1 Dual Certification program offers students the option of a five-year integrated undergraduate and graduate program that prepares them to be both elementary or secondary content area teachers, as well as teachers of students with special needs. The MASE 4+1 Dual Certification program option is ideal for students who are specifically interested in:

• the academic rigor and opportunity to achieve:
  • a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (BSEE) and Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE) degree in just five years; or
  • a bachelor’s degree in a Content Area aligned with Secondary Certification and Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE) degree in just five years; and
• obtaining either:
  • NJ Elementary (K-6) Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) and NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement; or
  • NJ Subject Area (K-12) Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) and NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Endorsement.

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