King's College London

Our BSc (Hons) Psychology and Criminology will allow you to engage with both the psychological sciences and the field of criminology and help you to explore their application to a variety of contemporary challenges. The course is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), who have highlighted areas of particular strength in our course, including the emphasis on research-led teaching, our modules for developing employability skills, and the wide range of discipline-specific opportunities, placements and internships that are available for students at the world-leading Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

The BSc degree is available as a 3-year option or a 4-year option (with placement year or study-abroad year). The admissions criteria are identical for the 3-year and 4-year BSc programmes. You will decide about joining, and apply to, the 4-year programmes in your second year of study, should you wish. If you are a Home student it does not matter which UCAS code you apply through, and please only apply to one. The different course codes are useful for those of you who are applying from overseas. If you have international fee status and think you might want to stay for 4-years, please use a 4-year code so that you have the correct visa from the start of your degree.

Our BSc (Hons) Psychology and Criminology degree course is taught by a dedicated teaching team who were recruited specifically to develop and teach this programme. The course draws upon the established expertise of the IoPPN and DPSoL, and a wide range of world-leading academics, researchers and practitioners across King’s. The course examines psychology and criminology from a number of different angles, both individually and holistically, from neuroscience to the social sciences, to provide you with knowledge across a variety of approaches to the real-world application of psychological science and criminology.

Designed to reflect the role of psychology and criminology in interdisciplinary research, the course asks you to apply insights from this research to a variety of contemporary problems. You will be required to develop your analytic, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills along with your core content knowledge.

We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face to face teaching will be complemented and supported with innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.