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Criminology and Law (with Foundation Year)

BSc (Hons)

UCAS code: LM9F

Start dates: September 2025 / September 2026

Full time: 4 Years, or 5 if a year abroad is chosen

Part time: up to 11 years

Location: Headington

School(s): School of Law and Social Sciences, School of Education, Humanities and Languages

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Overview

Interested in crime, justice and the law? Our Criminology and Law (with Foundation Year) course is a great starting point for anyone who wants to explore how society responds to crime, while also gaining the skills of a law degree.

You’ll begin with a foundation year in Humanities, designed to build your confidence and prepare you for university-level study. You’ll learn how to research, evaluate evidence, and communicate ideas, skills that are key in both law and criminology.

After the foundation year, you'll move on to a degree that combines legal training with in-depth study of crime and justice. You’ll explore topics like digital crime, criminal sentencing and the theories behind criminal behaviour. Along the way, you’ll build skills in legal analysis, problem-solving, and persuasive communication.

You’ll learn from leading experts, attend guest lectures and explore careers in law, policing, justice and more, with plenty of choice in the modules you study. You’ll graduate ready to make a real difference in society.

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Why Oxford Brookes University?

  • Perfect preparation

    Build essential study skills with an integrated foundation year. Gain academic confidence, improve critical thinking, and strengthen subject knowledge for your degree journey.

  • A distinctive social focus

    Being part of the School of Education, Humanities and Languages, you’ll get to study the subject from a wide range of views.

  • Make the degree yours

    Optional modules let you study topics that interest you, while the dissertation is your chance to focus on an area you care about.

  • An interdisciplinary approach

    Combine your passion for criminology with the critical skills of a law degree, gaining a unique interdisciplinary perspective for a versatile career path.

  • Links with top organisations

    Thanks to our partnerships with organisations like Thames Valley Police and the Tap Social Movement, you’ll have great options for work placement or real-life projects.

Course details

Course structure

Study some of today’s biggest crime-related issues with our Criminology and Law (with Foundation Year) course. Explore topics like cybercrime, global crime networks, immigration, and border control.

You’ll start with a foundation year in humanities, covering key ideas in literature, history, art history, and communication, building your confidence for degree-level study.

The first year of your degree is divided equally between criminology and law, allowing you to gain a solid grounding in each. You'll examine what crime is, how it’s represented in the media, and learn the foundations of criminal law.

In Year 2, you'll sharpen your research skills with modules in researching crime and advanced legal research, and explore digital crime and criminology. Optional modules let you tailor your learning to your interests.

In your final year, you'll complete an interdisciplinary dissertation and explore key issues like prisons and imprisonment, preparing you for a wide range of careers in justice, law, or public policy.

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Learning and teaching

Throughout the course our academic team make use of a range of teaching and learning styles. You will be supported at every level of the course, with close access to lecturers, small seminar groups and tutorials.

You will learn through a variety of teaching and learning methods including:

  • lectures, seminars and workshops
  • one-to-one tutorial and small group discussions
  • supervised independent learning
  • work with a wide range of practical resources.

During your studies you’ll gain a range of personal and professional skills. These skills will be a springboard for your future career development in a number of industries.

Assessment

Assessment methods on this course are diverse. Some modules use formal exams while others award all or part of the marks on coursework.

Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place face to face and you can expect around 8 hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

Foundation Year

Compulsory modules

  • Being Human: Love, Sex and Death

    Love, sex and death - how do these make us human? In this module, you’ll gain core analytical skills, key to studying Humanities at university, as you explore human bodies and emotions through time. 

    You’ll understand the ideas, practices and experiences that we have around bodies and feelings. You’ll also explore how bodies and emotions are shaped by: 

    • politics
    • religion
    • science
    • medicine
    • literary and artistic fashion.

    You’ll analyse texts, images and artefacts to understand the core role of human emotions and bodies in our world. 

  • Cultural Moments

    How do genres - styles or categories of literature - grow from major events in history and culture? In this module, you’ll explore how drama and literary studies relate to genre. You’ll get to grips with genres as categories that have evolved historically to become key influences on culture, taste and fashion. You’ll investigate real life cases of key movements across a range of disciplines. You’ll also consider how art responds to life and life to art.

  • Language, Vision and Representation

    In this module, you’ll learn about basic theories of meaning-making. You’ll begin to undertake a critical analysis of systems of representation - which could be spoken or written language, and virtual or physical texts. You’ll come to understand how meaning is made, but also challenged, through acts of interpretation which often we’re not conscious of making. You’ll also be encouraged to reflect on your own role in producing ‘meanings’.

  • The Reflective Learner

    Do you dream of studying a Humanities subject at university? In this module, you’ll gain the core skills and strategies you need to succeed as a university student. You’ll build up knowledge of each of the subjects within our Foundation in Humanities course and learn how to turn critical reading into clear and successful undergraduate assignments. You’ll also learn effective study strategies, including:

    • learning from lecture content 
    • taking part in seminars 
    • working and studying in groups.

  • Research Project

    This module gives you the chance to do independent research on a topic that fascinates you. You’ll gain the key skills you need to succeed as a university student, as you create, manage and complete your own research project. You’ll have one-to-one guidance from an expert academic supervisor in your chosen subject area who will support you to shape your research from your initial ideas through to your completed project.

  • Nation and Identity

    What is a nation? Do nations develop through shared language or the history of a people? Are they about laws and governance, or habits and customs? In this module, you’ll get to grips with core themes from Humanities subjects, including:

    • Philosophy
    • Religious Studies
    • History
    • English Literature 
    • English Language.

    You’ll develop a strong understanding of the concepts of a nation (including elements such as borders and national identity) and its challenges.

Optional modules

  • Modern British Art

    In this module, you’ll dive into art and artists through the century - from the Camden Town Group, to Modernists like Barbara Hepworth and Pop Artists like Peter Blake. You’ll examine paintings, sculptures and films as you discuss how British artists tried to create modern forms of expression. You’ll also investigate the ways they promoted their work, like:

    • exhibitions
    • manifestos
    • books
    • little magazines.

    You’ll enjoy on-site visits, where you’ll examine works of art firsthand. You’ll also attend exciting lectures and seminars where you’ll explore your ideas and enrich your understanding of modern British art.

  • French Beginners 2

    As someone with a beginner’s knowledge of French, you’ll develop stronger skills in French speaking and writing, translating and interpreting. You’ll be able to express yourself effectively in French, and gain a critical sensitivity to the intercultural differences between France and other countries.

  • Spanish Beginners 2

    As someone with a beginner’s knowledge of Spanish, you’ll develop stronger skills in Spanish speaking and writing, translating and interpreting. You’ll be able to express yourself effectively in Spanish, and gain a critical sensitivity to the intercultural differences between Spain and other countries.

  • Development Studies

    This is your opportunity to explore some of the key issues (e.g.urbanisation, poverty and social exclusion, environmental concerns and gender issues) within the field of Development Studies. You’ll also look at the factors causing poverty in countries defined as less developed.

    Exploring the fundamentals of how sociology, human geography and economics interact in the process of development. You’ll study key topics that will teach you to draw on your own knowledge and experience where possible to evaluate the policies in pursuit of development, and to address the problems faced by least developed countries. You’ll build your skills in identifying and reflecting on some of the key social, economic and environmental issues that challenge sustainable development.

  • Global Issues

    What is ‘global politics’? What do we mean by ‘international relations’? and how do our personal values affect our understanding of politics and historical events? In this module you’ll explore the global challenges we face, and how they are understood by different groups. You’ll examine issues like power structures and global conflict and  come to understand how these issues impact societies and the environment we live in.

  • Political Philosophy

    How is political opinion, authority and democracy shaped and influenced? In this module, you’ll explore foundational issues in political philosophy through exploring the main political ideologies.

    You’ll start your journey with Liberalism as the default position in the West since the English, American and French Revolutions. Your focus then shifts to the ideologies that arose in response to Liberalism, including:

    • Conservatism
    • Communism
    • Fascism
    • Communitarianism
    • Anarchism
    • and Feminism. 

    You’ll also consider questions linked to the theory of knowledge, such as can any ideology be rationally justified?"

  • Young Children's Outdoor Learning

    You’ll explore how young children learn through play. You’ll also discover how adults plan exploration and play for children in outdoors environments. You’ll get to grips with two key areas: 

    • maintaining good provisions and interactions in an early years outdoors area
    • teaching and learning through the Forest School approach. 

    You’ll look at how children and adults interact in a variety of situations. You’ll also gain core knowledge of health and safety training, as you study issues such as: 

    • children as risk-takers
    • off-site travel
    • maintaining a safe environment.

    You’ll develop core analytical skills as you explore how research and government policy affect children’s outdoor learning. 

  • Customs, Icons and Symbols

    Explore the study and understanding of Culture and Society by looking at relevant Customs, Icons and Symbols with a particular emphasis on communicative practice of reading and written language in contexts.

  • Origins of the Climate Crisis: A Global History of the Environment

    You will engage with the ways in which the environment and the climate have changed over the past six centuries. Looking at:

    • sustainability
    • climate change
    • conservation.

    Which are pressing issues with a rich and compelling history. You will investigate environmental changes and how they were contested and experienced at communal, national and international levels. You'll think about the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of resource management, energy use and food production. Including a focus on future policy solutions.

  • Creating Criminology 2

    On this module, you'll build your sense of a criminology community through collaborating and planning a criminology newsletter. This will help you take ownership of your criminology studies. 

    You'll get to use alumni as interviewees for your Criminology newsletter. You'll also engage with discussions for your future after university, and where you can make a positive impact.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Communication Skills for Lawyers

    In this module, you’ll gain key communication skills for a successful legal career. You’ll gain excellent oral skills in advocacy. You’ll also develop valuable presentation techniques for a plea in mitigation, giving you the knowledge to succeed in your degree and work. 

  • Crime and Criminology in Context

    What is crime? Who commits crimes, and why? And why are some acts criminal, when others aren’t? In this module, you’ll dig into the key concepts and theories of crime. You’ll challenge your own common-sense understanding of crime, through the theories of celebrated criminologists. And you’ll consider:

    • who invents crime and why
    • the role of crime in society
    • how might we study crime today digitally (online) and visually (through images).

  • Criminal Justice in Action

    In this module, you’ll explore some key concerns around crime. You’ll examine the current problems and policies in:

    • criminal justice
    • law enforcement
    • punishment. 

    You’ll gain core critical skills, as you dive into debates on the control and management of crime. You’ll examine the relationship between the theory of crime and criminal behaviour. And you’ll explore the practical workings of the criminal justice system. 

  • Criminal Law

    You’ve committed a crime. But what makes you responsible for it? In this module, you’ll get to grips with the key principles of criminal responsibility, and build key skills for your degree. You’ll look at individual defences and offences, as well as fatal and non-fatal offences against people and property. You’ll study crimes including: 

    • murder and manslaughter
    • theft and burglary
    • ‘offences against the person’ such as assault and battery.

    You’ll also learn about defences such as: 

    • insanity and automatism
    • duress and self-defence
    • duress.

  • Criminology Skills

    You'll have the support and guidance to build your academic skills. You'll improve your reading of resources and critical thinking abilities. You'll develop the skill of challenging preconceptions - helping you become an independent learner. Which is essential in guiding you to fulfil your potential as a Criminology student

  • Legal Method

    In this module, you’ll gain invaluable legal skills for your degree. You’ll learn to think like a lawyer, and understand:

    • the sources of English law
    • the structures and functions of the UK Courts.

    You’ll also learn:

    • how to critically read and assess statute and case-law
    • how to evaluate legal arguments
    • how to find and use online legal information.

    You’ll dive into the world of UK law. You’ll learn to find and understand legal information. And you’ll gain key skills in legal thought and argumentation.

  • Media and Crime

    How does the media police our morals as a society, and define our ideas of acceptable behaviour? In this module, you’ll gain the critical skills to analyse popular representations of crime in the media. You’ll examine news reports and other forms of mass-media. And you’ll develop a knowledge of crime as a cultural construct. 

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Advanced Legal Skills

    In this module, you’ll revisit and build upon the legal techniques and issues developed in Year 1. As this is an envelope module, you’ll be able to focus on one of the following:

    • Legal academic research and writing a Brief presenting the research
    • Legal practitioner research and writing a Dissertation presenting the research.

  • Public Criminology

    In this module, you’ll dive into real world problems of crime and criminal justice. You’ll apply your criminology knowledge to:

    • find solutions to key questions of crime and justice
    • find solutions to problems in current practice
    • explore how these solutions can inform future research. 

    You’ll examine case studies from current policy and practice. You’ll apply the insights of:

    • practitioners
    • policy-makers
    • politicians 

    currently working in criminal justice. You’ll gain a strong understanding of how criminology works in real life. And you’ll explore why there is a disconnect between the classroom, and criminology in practice. 
     

  • Researching Crime: Methods, Approaches and Ethics

    In this module, you’ll explore the key research methods of Criminology. You’ll gain invaluable critical skills, as you look at:

    • research methods
    • design 
    • processes
    • outcomes.

    You’ll also understand the ethics of research, including:

    • the requirements of conducting research with vulnerable populations.
    • how your identity can help or hinder research relationships.

  • Understanding Criminal Justice

    In this module, you’ll dive into the criminal justice system, and the main issues of criminal justice. You’ll understand wider aspects of the criminal justice system and engage critically with the system’s flaws and shortcomings. You’ll gain critical skills as you examine how well the system achieves its aims. You’ll explore specific areas such as:

    • punishment
    • sentencing
    • crime prevention
    • community safety
    • policing
    • youth crime
    • prisons
    • the criminal court system.

    You’ll observe the criminal justice system, first hand. You’ll then devise a social-science experiment to test your understanding of the system you’ve studied. This means you’ll devise a hypothesis on how the criminal justice system operates, and test to see if your hypothesis is correct. You’ll conduct work in prisons, police stations and the streets of Oxford, allowing you to access the real world of the criminal justice system.
     

  • Evidence

    How do we deal with the evidence of children and the vulnerable? In this module, you’ll get to grips with the key rules of evidence. You’ll examine:

    • sexual history evidence
    • corroboration and identification evidence
    • expert opinion evidence
    • hearsay evidence
    • confession evidence
    • silence as evidence
    • improperly obtained evidence
    • covert surveillance and entrapment
    • evidence of character
    • evidence of children, and vulnerable witnesses. 

    You’ll dive into the significance of evidence, and its rules in criminal trials. And you’ll understand the need to avoid miscarriages of justice. 

  • Digital Crime and Criminology

    How does the digital world affect our understanding of key criminal law and criminological concepts? In this module, you’ll explore key concepts in the rapidly growing field of digital law and criminology and you’ll investigate how law and criminology meet and merge in the digital age. You’ll be introduced to the key theoretical frameworks of interest to digital criminologists and digital lawyers and you’ll work on applying these frameworks to specific topics of contemporary interest such as cyberhate, sexting and pornography.

    Students will be introduced to the key theoretical frameworks of interest to digital criminologists and digital lawyers including the ‘digital’, intersectional digitalities and key themes in internet regulation. Students will then be applying these frameworks to specific topics of contemporary interest such as cyberhate, sexting and pornography, for example. 

Optional modules

  • Criminology Work Based Learning

    In this module, you’ll kick-start your career, and gain key work experience in organisations related to crime. You’ll do a placement, or work-based learning activity in:

    • a public sector organisation
    • a non-governmental organisation (NGO)
    • a voluntary organisation.

    Whether working with the police, prison services, schools or charities, you’ll gain invaluable skills for your future career. You won’t engage directly with clients or service users, but you’ll gain a strong knowledge of how organisations identify and fight crime.

  • Crime and Intersectionality

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with intersectionality - a way of understanding someone’s identity as made of characteristics such as race, gender and class. Intersectionality offers you a unique way to study crime. You’ll discover how criminal justice institutions, such as the police and criminal courts, respond to and discriminate against different social groups. 

  • Globalisation and Crime

    In this module, you’ll explore and examine areas of crime and crime control across different regions of the world through the lens of 'globalisation', or the increased interconnectedness of social relations across the globe

    You’ll use a combination of theoretical concepts and case studies to interrogate and understand the interconnectedness of crime and responses to crime in the contemporary world.

     

  • International Law

    In this module, you’ll explore the key laws of the international community. You’ll examine the origins and basis of international law. You’ll also look at the sources of international law, including treaties and customary norms. You’ll enhance your critical skills as you analyse the relationship between:

    • international and municipal law
    • subjects of international law
    • the concept of territory or jurisdiction.

    You’ll consider the core principles in the use of force, and the way armies behave. And you’ll look at the law of state responsibility, individual accountability and violations of international rules.

  • Marriage Cohabitation and the Law

    How does the law regulate relationships between adults? What legal rights flow from married and unmarried relationships? In this module, you’ll get to grips with the law regulating all types of adult family relationships, particularly:

    • the law of marriage
    • civil partnerships
    • cohabitating couples
    • divorce
    • division of property on family breakdown
    • domestic violence
    • parental responsibility for children.

    You’ll gain vital skills in legal reasoning as you learn legal analysis techniques, and how to answer problem questions.

    Stowe Family Law are offering work experience at their Oxford office, as part of the ‘Stowe Family Law Prize’, to the highest scoring second year student who completes this optional module

  • Green Criminology

    You'll engage with the emerging field of Green Criminology. You'll learn the key theoretical concepts of green criminology and environmental justice. 

    You'll focus on understanding Green Criminology as a transnational field. Including the social issues impacting individuals on a global scale. 

Optional Year Abroad

Optional modules

  • Year Abroad

    This module offers the opportunity to study abroad, experience a new culture, and apply your skills in different contexts to enhance your employability. It will help you develop self-management, cross-cultural communication, and interpersonal skills.

    You’ll receive support to secure a place at a partner institution abroad, where you can choose modules related to your degree or explore new areas that complement your studies.

    Studying at an international university will help you enhance your interpersonal skills through cross-cultural communication with students and tutors, allowing you to build lasting relationships. You'll also improve your study skills by focusing on your chosen areas of interest, gaining valuable international experience that will strengthen your CV.

    This year abroad module lasts for one academic year and is taken after the conclusion of your second year of study, once you’ve completed all your level 5 studies. Your year abroad is not credit-bearing.

Final Year

Compulsory modules

  • Interdisciplinary Dissertation

    This module gives you the chance to do research on a topic that fascinates you. Over the course of your final year, you’ll work independently on a research project, with the help of expert supervision. Your dissertation will grow out of your specific passion, and you’ll gain excellent self-discipline and organisational skills for work. You’ll gain core skills for your career, including:

    • research
    • critical analysis
    • time-management 
    • planned and focused writing.

Optional modules

  • Border Criminology

    In this module, you’ll examine border criminology, which is the study of the intersection of border control and criminal justice.  You’ll get to grips with key issues around:

    • migration
    • punishment
    • citizenship and belonging.

    You’ll investigate core developments of border criminology, including:

    • immigration removal centres
    • foreign national prisons
    • policing of borders.

    You’ll gain key critical skills, as you explore debates surrounding immigration, punishment and national identity. You’ll examine the institutions concerned with border control, and the increasing use of punishment and force around immigration control in the UK and abroad.

  • Computer Law and Artificial Intelligence

    The internet rules society. In a vastly digital age, lawyers really need to understand technology and the legal challenges it presents. In this module, you’ll examine the legal issues of current internet technologies and hardware. You’ll gain key technical knowledge, as you evaluate the regulatory systems of these technologies, and how they affect society. You’ll explore how digital technologies challenge copyright law. And you’ll be introduced to some of the legal issues relating to the use of artificial intelligence. 

     

  • Dealing with Drugs: Control and Intoxication

    In this module, you’ll bust some key assumptions around psychoactive drugs. You’ll look at why we use them and how we control them in society. You’ll investigate:

    • criminological
    • sociological
    • historical 

    and policy insights, to explore the relationship between drug use, individuals and public morality. You’ll gain key critical skills as you debate drug policies, and how we can lessen the harm of substance abuse. You’ll look at alternative ways to regulate drugs than our current ‘war on drugs’ mentality. And you’ll explore the future of synthetic drugs.

  • Policing, Security and Society

    This is a key time to study policing in western countries. The response to crime in the west is changing fast as policing moves towards privatisation in the digital age. 

    You’ll analyse modern policing in the west and its former colonies. You’ll examine the history of policing. You’ll compare policing in other countries to policing in the UK. You’ll also look at the rise of neo-colonial policing today (the use of economic, political and cultural pressures to control other countries).

    You’ll explore areas like: 

    • securitization
    • militarization 
    • transnationalism 
    • human trafficking.

  • Independent Study Module

    This module gives you the chance to do research on a topic that fascinates you. You’ll work independently, with the support of our expert academic team, and will carry out work on a specific project of your choosing. You’ll gain core skills for work, including in:

    • enquiry
    • research 
    • analysis 
    • evaluation.

  • International Human Rights Law

    How can we effectively protect human rights? In this module, you’ll get to grips with international human rights law. You’ll gain key critical skills as you analyse arguments and ideas about human rights, and the ideas behind them. You’ll also consider their current legal and political meaning through examining: 

    • relevant laws
    • current debates
    • case studies.

  • Nationality, Immigration and Asylum

    In this module, you’ll get to grips with nationality and immigration law, and what it reveals about British society. You’ll examine the key issues and policies around nationality, national identity and migration. You’ll gain a firm understanding of migration in the UK and abroad, as you debate critical issues of today. You’ll also consider current UK law, and the historical, social and political factors that have shaped it. 

  • Parents, Children and the State

    How does the law deal with child abduction, and disputes over children? How can the state protect children who may be victims of abuse within their own families? In this module, you’ll get to grips with law relating to parents, children and the state. You’ll dive into law reports, as you look critically at the legal concepts around:

    • relationships between parents and children
    • the relevance of the state to parents and children.

    You’ll consider:

    • parental responsibility
    • resolution of disputes over children
    • child protection
    • child abduction
    • adoption.

    You’ll gain vital skills in legal reasoning as you learn legal analysis techniques, and how to answer problem questions. 

  • Sex that Offends

    This module introduces you to case studies, concepts and debates. With a focus on sexual offences and other serious crimes. You will explore themes of consent and harm. Drawing on critical criminology, feminist theory and socio-legal studies. 

    You will look at how the criminal law and cultural norms have constructed certain behaviours and identities as deviant. 

    And then from a criminological perspective; you will go beyond the headlines to examine the role of:

    • labelling
    • moral panics 
    • and changing social attitudes towards sex.

    To develop your critical thinking skills.

  • The Carnival and Pleasures of Crime

    Why do people enjoy committing crimes? How might crime offer identity and purpose? In this module, you’ll explore the role of:

    • pleasures
    • performance
    • identity 
    • meaning 

    in criminal acts. You’ll think about the multiple meanings and actions that crime holds for different people across time. You’ll consider the social benefits of crimes and resistance to the law. And you’ll explore how different interpretations of crime might affect crime control and criminal justice.
     

  • The Prison and Imprisonment

    Should we punish prisoners, or support them to re-enter society? In this module, you’ll dive into the key issues of prisons. You’ll consider modern prisons, globally and historically. And you’ll examine prisons through:

    • prisoners
    • prison staff
    • wider society. 

    You'll trace the evolution of the prison - from the rehabilitative ideal of the post-war period, to the greater focus on punishment today. You’ll look at how political parties use prison policies to win votes, rather than reduce crime. 

    You’ll dive into the inner workings of prisons, from governance to administration. You’ll look at the routines of prison life, and how prisoners cope with, and give meaning to them. You’ll consider sentence progression for different types of prisoners. And you’ll explore how well prisons prepare inmates for life after release. 
     

Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Careers

Our Criminology and Law degree is a suitable education for a range of career options in the public and private sectors. 

By the time you graduate from Oxford Brookes, you'll have acquired a wide range of skills and attributes that will mean you’re well-rounded and highly employable. You will have gained valuable skills in criminal research, analysis and articulation. These are skills that are particularly attractive to employers in a number of sectors including:

  • criminal justice agencies
  • local authorities
  • policing and police services
  • NGOs and the voluntary sector
  • human rights, advocacy work and community support services. 

Criminology graduates will also be able to advance to postgraduate courses in a variety of areas of specialisation, such as law, business or humanities.

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Entry requirements

Wherever possible we make our conditional offers using the UCAS Tariff. The combination of A-level grades listed here would be just one way of achieving the UCAS Tariff points for this course.

Standard offer

UCAS Tariff Points: 48

A Level: DD

IB Points: 24

BTEC: PPP or MP

Further offer details

Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications, international qualifications or recognised foundation courses. For advice on eligibility please contact Admissions: admissions@brookes.ac.uk

How to apply

Application process


Full time Home (UK) applicants
Apply through UCAS


Part time Home (UK) applicants
Apply direct to the University


International applicants
Apply direct to the University

Full time international applicants can also apply through UCAS

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
International full time
£16,750
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)*
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)*
International full time
£17,250

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Tuition fees

2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
International full time
£16,750
2026 / 27
Home (UK) full time
£5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)*
Home (UK) part time
£720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)*
International full time
£17,250

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

*Tuition fee level for 2025-26. Tuition fees for home undergraduate students in 2026-27 will be confirmed by the Government later in 2025 and will be updated on our website as soon as the information becomes available.

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

For further information please see our 2025-26 tuition fees FAQs.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Funding your studies

Financial support and scholarships

Featured funding opportunities available for this course.

Oxford Brookes Bursary for Continuing Students Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students Oxford Brookes Bursary for New Students

All financial support and scholarships

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Information from Discover Uni

Full-time study

Part-time study

Programme changes:
On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.