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Criminal Justice and Criminology

Entry requirements


A level

B,B,C-C,C,C

Access to HE Diploma

D:18,M:24,P:0

112 Tariff points from your IB Diploma, typically H5, H5, H6 or equivalent

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DDM-MMM

Scottish Higher qualifications are considered on an individual basis.

UCAS Tariff

96-112

About this course


Course option

3years

Full-time | 2024

Subject

Criminology

What causes crime rates to rise or fall, and who benefits? How can we deal with offenders? Can crime be prevented? Studying Criminal Justice and Criminology, you assess all areas of the criminal justice system, from prevention to sentencing, developing your own view of what works and what doesn’t.

The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research is one of the best in the country for teaching and research. Our academics are internationally recognised for their expertise and challenge you to develop your own opinions and ideas, encouraging you to become an independent thinker. We offer high levels of support and our staff are friendly and accessible.

**Reasons to study Criminal Justice and Criminology at Kent**
- Criminal Justice and Criminology is recognised by Skills for Justice (the skills and standard-setting body for the justice sector) as providing education of outstanding quality and relevance.

- You gain the skills needed for careers in the criminal justice professions in the public and private sectors.

- Excellent links with local agencies, such as the probation and youth justice services, the police and social services.

- Criminology at Kent achieved the second highest score for research quality in The Times Good University Guide 2023.

- Take a year in professional practice to boost employability.

- Our School is consistently ranked among the top four disciplinary centres of its kind in the UK for Criminology.

**What you’ll learn**

You gain an in-depth understanding of the criminal justice system. You learn principal concepts and theoretical approaches in criminology as well as the social processes that shape contemporary society.

Our teaching is interdisciplinary, grounding key issues in criminal justice and criminology within a wider sociological and social policy context. As you progress through the course, you can choose from a wide range of modules that allow you to focus on areas of particular interest to you.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£18,600
per year
International
£18,600
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course location:

University of Kent at Medway

Department:

School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

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What students say


How do students rate their degree experience?

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Criminology

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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

96%
UK students
4%
International students
24%
Male students
76%
Female students
74%
2:1 or above
12%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
C
C

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Sociology

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£20,000
med
Average annual salary
96%
med
Employed or in further education
46%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

13%
Public services and other associate professionals
9%
Sales assistants and retail cashiers
8%
Other elementary services occupations

We have quite a lot of sociology graduates, although numbers fell last year. But graduates still do pretty well. Most sociology graduates go straight into work when they complete their degrees, and a lot of graduates go into jobs in social professions such as recruitment, education, community and youth work, and housing. An important option for a sociology graduate is social work - and we're short of people willing to take this challenging but rewarding career. Sociology is a flexible degree and you can find graduates from the subject in pretty much every reasonable job — obviously, you don't find many doctors or engineers, but you do find them in finance, the media, healthcare, marketing and even IT. Sociology graduates taking further study often branch out into other qualifications, like teaching, law, psychology, HR and even maths, so don’t think a sociology degree restricts you to just one set of options.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Sociology

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

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