Criminology and Social Policy Cardiff University

A year abroad or on placement

Expand your horizons; gain experience with study abroad options or a professional placement.

Research-led

Develop your research skills with the support of research-active staff; apply your skills in a dissertation project.

Learn from leading institutions through links to police, probation and prisons, as well as government at local and national levels.

Delve into pressing issues

Explore a range of topics including: education, migration, poverty, crime rates or voting behaviour.

Placement opportunities

Undertake a placement with the help of our dedicated Employability and Placement manager.

This degree programme is an opportunity to study both Criminology and Social Policy within an interdisciplinary social sciences context.

This programme combines Criminology, focusing on criminalisation, victimisation and social responses to crime and disorder, with Social Policy, studying how societies respond to human need and seek to promote the wellbeing of their members.

Teaching draws on a range of social science perspectives and offers you the chance to explore sociological and political attitudes to crime and its control, along with debates on the goals of social policy: how do we decide what human needs are and whose responsibility is it to meet human needs.

Entry requirements

A Levels

ABB-BBB

Extended/International Project Qualification: Applicants with grade A in the EPQ/IPQ will typically receive an offer one grade lower than the standard A level offer. Please note that any subject specific requirements must still be met.

English requirements

Grade C or grade 4 in GCSE English Language.

At least 6.5 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each subskill.

At least 90 overall with minimum scores of 17 for writing, 17 for listening, 18 for reading and 20 for speaking.

At least 62 overall with a minimum of 59 in all communicative skills.

II: at least two Distinctions and two Merits. III: at least a Pass in all components.

Please visit our English Language requirements page for more information on our other accepted language qualifications.