Is Criminal Justice a good major for college when planning to go to law school?

I have graduated from law school and practiced law. Criminology and criminal justice are among the weakest majors for law school admission. They are regarded by many law school admission deans as too easy and they approach law in a very different way than law schools approach it. However, the choice of major is much less important for law school admission than the GPA and the LSAT score. The best pre-law majors include history, math, and engineering which teach critical and analytical reasoning.

What you plan is NOT going to help with law school admissions! Law schools admit applicants with what are generally considered strong and challenging undergraduate majors, and criminal justice and criminology are not in that group -- nor is sociology or anything PE-related. Law schools also work to admit students with a very wide variety of academic backgrounds, which adds academic diversity to the law school. I was the first person admitted to my law school with an undergraduate degree in music, and a masters degree in ed psych, which were a bit wierd, but I also had taught school several years and gotten my pilot's license and flown in air races. My classmates included a former nun with degrees in math, an art history professor, a news reporter from a major daily paper, a brigadier general from the US Army, a rabbi, and several MDs. (The MDs flunked out -- they were great at memorizing stuff but not good at analysis and couldn't write well.) There was also the usual variety of people with degrees in history, English, the hard sciences, etc. So -- major in something that really excites you! Best of luck!

No, criminal justice is not a good degree for one simple reason ... you cannot rely upon it alone to get a job. Anyone contemplating law school nowadays should make certain they get an undergrad degree that could support them financially if necessary. Reason being? Because the legal market is a disaster nowadays. Lots of unemployed lawyers all competing for very few jobs, low starting salaries, and law grads are carrying an average debt of around $100,000. There is a likely chance that when you graduate law school, you will not find a reasonable-paying job in the legal market. And guess what, you law school loans will come due right away (whether you have income or not). That is why you need to get a good undergrad degree that you can fall back on in the likely event that law school doesn't work out. Get a degree in business, healthcare, technology, or engineering. All four industries are expected to have decent demand for new employees in the future. My other advice, apply only to the T14 law schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc). If you don't get into a T14, then forget law school. The legal market is so bad that your chances of a making a decent salary are slim. Your chances markedly improve if you graduate from a T14.

YES , Its an excellent option . but to get into these disciplines , micro analytical skills and spy instinct is most desirable for gr8 success and better achievements in the career