Overview
Join the global mission to stop criminals exploiting the internet. On the UK’s first BSc (Hons) course in Criminology and Cybercrime, you'll explore the future of policing and how criminal organisations operate online. You'll learn to make a difference, not by fighting tech with tech, but by understanding the human aspects of cybercrime.
Cyber is always evolving, so this course does too. You can choose from wide range of innovative and topical modules – from cybersecurity, online terrorism and digital forensics, to cyberdeviance and cyberpsychology.
Course highlights
- Learn from cybercrime, criminology, probation and policing experts whose expertise is requested by organisations around the world
- Tailor the course to meet your interests, by studying modules that match your career aspirations
- Explore up-to-the-minute topics based on our criminology team’s research, including hacktivism and incel subculture
- Investigate issues as varied as cyber fraud, cyberbullying and online piracy, to discover how they affect people, organisations and government
- Work with practitioners providing professional cybersecurity advice in our award-winning Cybercrime Awareness Clinic
- Have the opportunity to do a criminology work placement year after your second or third year on this Connected Degree - we're the only UK university to offer flexible sandwich placements for undergraduates
- Practise digital investigative techniques and develop transferable skills in analysis, research and new technologies
- Study alongside operational police units and learn directly from operational policing staff
- Meet visiting criminology and cybercrime professionals who work in areas of cyber like the dark web and penetration testing
- Choose to learn a foreign language for free as part of your degree, from a selection of Arabic, British Sign Language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin or Spanish
Careers and opportunities
Employers around the globe are very interested in graduates with cybercrime expertise. In our increasingly digital world, the demand is likely to grow.
Once you graduate this course in criminology and cybercrime, you'll be well prepared for a wide range of roles, especially those focused on the human side of cybercrime.
You'll graduate ready for opportunities in the police force, policy making organisations and new technology. Specialist areas for you in the public and private sector include:
- specialised cybercrime units
- crime prevention
- criminological research
- intelligence analysis
- digital investigations
- security consultancy
- the prison system
You could also progress to postgraduate study in criminology or cybercrime.
You could have a career in digital investigation, crime prevention, and security consultancy. With skills that are in high demand, potential roles could include:
- policy researcher
- civil service
- vulnerability assessor
- incident responder
- security profiler
- cybersecurity consultant
- law enforcement
