Explore Our Public Safety Programs
Criminal Justice
Find your career in criminal justice and help make the world a better, safer place. It all begins with your education.
Emergency Medical Technician
Become a first responder in as little as 16 months! With Herzing, you’ll gain a solid foundation to assess and manage emergency medical needs. Choose from associate degree, diploma and certificate programs.
Interdisciplinary Studies
Build a degree, build your career. Complete YOUR bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and become qualified for the job you really want.
Pursue a Career in Public Safety
Herzing University’s public safety degree program prepares graduates for important careers that help maintain a peaceful and safe society. Today, there is a growing need for qualified, trained professionals in the security, criminal justice, EMT, and law enforcement fields.
Our hands-on classes and fieldwork will provide you with the public safety training and experience you need to advance in your current job or start a new career as a first responder or other public safety professional.
Career-focused curriculum
Discover the crucial knowledge and skills required to succeed in your work and build a foundation for continued career growth.
Flexible schedule
We work hard to help you maintain school-life balance, striving to be as flexible as possible for busy non-traditional students.
Experienced faculty
Get face-to-face instruction from experienced and credentialed faculty with real-world success in the field.
Waived Enrollment Fee
Discover the educational pathway designed to maximize your career potential. Reach for greater heights with Herzing University.
We are proud to have awarded
all time to students via our First Responder’s and Badge-to-Grad grants.
An affordable, career-focused education is possible with Herzing University.
The Student Experience at Herzing
After meeting the advisors and staff at Herzing University, I knew it was the right school for me. The Herzing staff did a great job explaining how well the university would work with a nontraditional college student like me with a family and a career.
Brady Esser
Public Safety | Brookfield/Milwaukee CampusI found Herzing University to be very professional, and the staff are very helpful and dedicated. They will see you through your educational journey from beginning to the very end.
Juernene N. Purviance
Public Safety | Online CampusHerzing means everything to me. The instructors and staff have become my family and they were the reason I was able to complete my degree
Taeya Mills
Public SafetyThe online program is hard, but I learned that if you want something, you will do whatever it takes to accomplish your goal. My community health course helped me prepare to rebuild parts of my community and now I’m seriously considering pursuing my master’s degree in criminal justice.
Holli Yvette Thomas
Public Safety | Online CampusAfter graduating with my associate’s degree in medical office administration, I received several job offers. However, I decided to pursue a different passion and continue my education at Herzing with an associate’s degree in Criminal Justice. Today, I’m the owner of Daden Investigative Services in St. Louis, where I work as a licensed private investigator. Thank you, Herzing, for helping me jumpstart my career!