Crime Analytics (CAGC)

Level up your crime-busting career with tech-savvy skills

Fight crime and protect your community with data. This program combines the emerging field of crime analytics with technology, research, and communications courses and is geared toward learners with a background or degree in police services. 
 
Data from emails, videos, chat files, social media and text messages are just some of the mass amounts of data that can be used to gain crucial information. You’ll train to collect, store, and analyze data sets to examine patterns of criminal behaviour, predict trends, and identify threats in your community. Using critical thinking exercises, you'll learn to work as a member of a major police case management team. 

Program highlights

• Learn to work as a member of an interdisciplinary analytics team 
• Develop data collection, analysis, and presentation skills 
• Seven-week capstone project in the final semester 
• Build an in-demand skills set in ArcGIS, Microsoft Office and Excel, PowerBI, Python programming, R, statistics, and SQL database  

Program of study for 2025-26 Academic Year 

Admission requirements

Applicants must be graduates of a diploma, advanced diploma, or degree program from an Ontario College or equivalent.

OR

Applicant must possess five years of work experience in a related field (or combination of education and work experience) as judged by the College to be equivalent. Applicants must submit a resume detailing their related experience and a cover letter outlining their competencies and preparedness for the program (any post-secondary transcripts must still be submitted).

Applicants whose first language is not English must provide proof of English language proficiency. Cambrian College accepts the TOEFL, IELTS, or equivalent test to satisfy our English admission requirements.

Additional admission requirements

Recommendations

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Any grade 12 mathematics (C) or (U) (MCT4C is highly recommended)
  • Students who do not possess the foundational math will need to take the bridging course/s before registration. Please get in touch with the program coordinator to discuss upgrading options.

Program delivery

2025-2026

Fall term start

SEMESTER 1:  Fall 2025
SEMESTER 2:  Winter 2026
SEMESTER 3:  Spring 2026

Specific program pathways

College or university degree opportunities  

If you are a graduate of this program, you may continue your studies at a college or university and you may receive credit(s) for your prior college education. Refer to Cambrian's college and university agreement details for further information. 

Employment opportunities

Crime analysts work for various law enforcement, intelligence, research, government, and other organizations. They also work with the financial sector in areas such as private investigation, insurance investigation, and fraud investigation. Typical tasks involve analyzing intelligence, predictive modeling, mining data from primary and secondary sources, analyzing and interpreting results, pinpointing and predicting trends, providing concise reports, and designing, creating, and maintaining databases.

Graduates are prepared for employment opportunities as:

• Crime Analyst
• Data Analyst
• Fraud Analyst
• Compliance Analyst
• Intelligence Analyst
• Security Analyst
• Forensic Data Analyst
• Financial Analyst