He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington, and his Master's in Sociology at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He is the 2013 recipient of Gannon's three-year Cooney-Jackman Endowed Professorship. For three years under the professorship, Dr. Magno popularized the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) among faculty and students at Gannon University. Dr. Magno also supervised and organized a series of community-based mapping projects and exhibits. He has been a member of Gannon’s Criminal Justice Program for 6 years, where he has been teaching courses on Geographic Information System for Environmental Engineering, Business and Marketing, and Criminal Justice majors. He presented and authored numerous articles on urban crime, urban cartography, and political capital in professional conferences and academic journals.