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Criminology at University of Manchester - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

The Department of Criminology has specialists in research around five key themes:

  • Fraud, white-collar and organised crime;
  • Prisons, punishment and policing;
  • Violence, abuse, exploitation and intersectionalities;
  • Quantitative measurement and evaluations of crime and deviance;
  • Drug markets, consumption and policy.
The School welcomes applications that fit with the particular specialisms of our research staff. For example, we currently have grants in the areas of desistance, fraud, drugs, cryptomarkets, modern slavery, corruption, organised crime, policing and punishment, amongst others. In addition, the department has extensive skills in diverse methodologies, including:
  • biographical and narrative approaches to interviewing;
  • ethnography;
  • psychosocial case analysis;
  • network analysis;
  • deliberative methods;
  • qualitative and quantitative longitudinal research;
  • survey design and applied statistical analysis;
  • programme evaluation;
  • policy analysis.

Entry requirements

- Bachelor's (Honours) degree in a cognate subject at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and - Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent)

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For fees for entry in 2025, please view the course listing on our website.

Sponsorship information

There are a range of scholarships, studentships and awards available to support both UK and overseas postgraduate researchers, details of which can be found via the links below. To apply University of Manchester funding, you must indicate in your application the competitions for which you wish to be considered. The deadline for most internal competitions, including School of Social Sciences studentships is 1 December 2024. All external funding competitions have a specified deadline for submitting your funding application and a separate (earlier) deadline for submitting the online programme application form, both of which will be stated in the funding competition details below. You will need to be nominated by your proposed supervisor for a number of our scholarships. Therefore, we highly recommend you discuss these funding opportunities with your supervisor first, so they can advise on your suitability and ensure you meet nomination deadlines. For more information about funding, visit our funding page to browse for scholarships, studentships and awards you may be eligible for.

Criminology at University of Manchester - UCAS