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Criminology and Policing

BSc (Single Honours)

Cert HE

Dip HE

Start date:

September 2024

Entry tariff:

112 UCAS points (or equivalent)

Foundation Year entry: 64 UCAS points (or equivalent)

UCAS Code:

M901

M915 (If choosing Foundation Year)

M903 (CertHE)

M905 (DipHE)

Learn from an experienced team with extensive criminal justice experience and equip yourself for a career analysing and responding to crime.

Did you know?

You'll learn from lecturers with vast experience in the criminal justice system, who have worked as expert advisors, policymakers, researchers, and campaigners.

Through our close links with local, national, and international criminal justice agencies, you will have the opportunity to connect with experts in the sector.

This course is also available with a foundation year (September entry only)

Find out more about our Foundation Year

Foundation Scholarship available (home students enrolling on degrees with foundation years)

Modules

Year 1 Year 2 Placement Year Year 3 Foundation

This course offers all students the option of a one-year paid work placement, to boost your employability even further. If you choose this route, you will take the placement following year two of your course, and then return to complete your degree.

Why take a placement?

A placement year is the perfect opportunity to gain valuable work experience, to build on the career skills we will teach you on this degree. The connections you make on the placement will improve your career prospects further, and equip you with the skills you need to secure graduate-level employment.

How we support you

The University's Placement and Work Experience Team are experts at helping you to secure a placement. They will work closely with you from the start, helping you research potential employers, discover placement opportunities, create and pitch your CV, and will coach you to perform well in interviews. We aren't able to guarantee a placement, but our sector-leading advisors will give you the best possible chance of securing one.

Find out more about how we'll support you

We understand that your plans might change once you start your programme. If you decide not to do a placement, you will have the option of completing the three year version of your programme.

Whatever your choice, you will have access to many opportunities for work experience through our Placement and Work Experience Team, and access to face-to-face and 24/7 online careers support.

This course is offered as a degree with foundation year – a four-year programme which provides an additional foundation year at the beginning of the degree, that will give you academic and practical experience, as well as the skills you need to ensure you are equipped to successfully complete your chosen degree.

£2,000 Foundation Scholarships for all home students

Find out more about our degrees with a foundation year

Skills

On our BSc Criminology and Policing, our priority is ensuring that you graduate with a professional skillset.

This incorporates;

An excellent grasp of indispensable skills in criminology and the social sciences, and the skills required to challenge current key ethical, political and moral questions about crime, justice and policing.
Real-world engagement. Through connections with criminal justice agencies, you could study within a prison in the module ‘Prisons and Penal Policy’ alongside serving prisoners while engaging with community agencies, prisons and the police service.

These three strands will ensure that you are ready for working in many different areas that shape society. You could secure work in the prison and probation services, the police, Home Office or Ministry of Justice.

Learning

You will be taught by leading scholars in a Faculty driven by innovative research.

Our team has extensive criminal justice experience, and what you will be taught is directly informed by research and consultancy work acting as advisors to the Government, Home Office, Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service.

This degree will focus on developing you as a professional, equipping you with the skills and qualities you need for a career in the field of criminology.

You will first be introduced to the key perspectives in criminology and supported to question and debate challenges within the criminal justice system through shared modules with our BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice course.

As you progress, you will develop your ability to apply your knowledge through a range of authentic assessments – which could include digital campaigns and community engagement projects.

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Career

Studying criminology opens the door to working in many different areas that shape society.

You could secure work in:

The prison and probation services
The police
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
The legal profession

Equally, many criminology graduates work in the charity sector or for campaigning organisations focusing on advocacy or criminal justice reform. As a social scientist, your ability to dissect, analyse and research crime, its causes and its potential solutions, will be highly valuable to employers.

How our careers service supports you

Wherever you want to go in the future, you’ll be preparing for the world of work from day one at Roehampton, with regular access to:

Career development events
Guest industry speakers
Networking opportunities
Personalised mentoring and careers support

You’ll graduate ready to grab every opportunity that comes your way.

Our careers support team is available to support you from the start of your studies until after you graduate. We will help you build your CV, prepare for interviews, and meet and learn from successful graduates working at the top of their careers.

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Applying

UK Students International Students

Full-time UK undergraduate students apply through UCAS.

How to apply

Apply via UCAS

Entry requirements

Entry tariff

112 UCAS points (or equivalent)

Foundation Year entry: 64 UCAS points (or equivalent)

We welcome applications from students studying T Levels.

For all courses we also accept a wide range of other qualifications and experience. Contact us to find out more.

When we consider applications to study with us, we form a complete view of your achievements to date, and future potential, and can offer flexibility in entry requirements. Find out more about our Contextual Offer scheme.

General entry requirements

UK students

Tuition fees and funding

September 2024 entry tuition fees

Year one fees

UK: £9,250
Placement year: £998

We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for UK students.

We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.

International undergraduate students apply through our direct application system.

How to apply

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Entry requirements