Bachelor of Science - Psychology with Criminology (Honours)

BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology keeps the full scientific psychology curriculum — cognition, development, biology, research methods and the empirical dissertation — as the majority award, adding a sustained criminology strand: theories of crime, the justice system, victimology and penal policy, taught with Leicester De Montfort’s criminal-justice research strengths behind it.

The “with” construction matters for professional planning and deserves explicit counselling: psychology leads the credit weighting, preserving the science training that professional-body accreditation standards examine — a status applicants should verify current — so the criminology enrichment costs nothing in later eligibility while colouring option choices and dissertation topics toward forensic questions.

Leicester adds practical texture that generic prospectuses miss: the law school’s justice clinics, local victim-support organisations and the city’s youth-services network all take student volunteers, letting this pairing’s undergraduates accumulate justice-adjacent experience alongside the psychology laboratory hours — the double evidence base that forensic-flavoured careers examine, gathered without leaving the city, at the standard £16,800 faculty fee.

Assessment pairs the disciplines productively — statistical coursework alongside justice-system case analysis, laboratory practicals alongside penal-policy essays — and the final-year dissertation commonly investigates offending, rehabilitation or witness-behaviour questions, producing graduates fluent in both evidence traditions.

First destinations concentrate in the justice-welfare borderland — youth offending, secure services, victim support, probation-adjacent roles — at £20,000–£24,000, with the psychology base keeping general graduate markets open; some statutory justice roles carry residency conditions international students should check per vacancy. Completion brings Graduate Route rights at the 18-month post-2026 term, with dependants excluded during taught study.