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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
University of Portsmouth - Portsmouth Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
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
Opt to do a foundation year with ICP to get uni-ready ahead of this course, then take up a guaranteed place on this full Bachelor's degree when you successfully finish your foundation year
BCC-BBB Grades/points required
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