Law with Criminology with Foundation Year
Law with Criminology combines rigorous legal training with the social science of crime, giving you an integrated understanding of how legal systems are constructed and how the behaviour that those systems address is understood, explained, and responded to. Law provides a disciplined engagement with the rules, institutions, and processes that govern rights and obligations in society. Criminology brings in perspectives from sociology, psychology, and political theory to ask why crime occurs, how it is defined, how the criminal justice system operates, and what consequences it produces for offenders, victims, and communities.
At the University of Law in London, this four-year, full-time programme includes a foundation year, which gives students who need additional academic preparation a structured and supported entry into the degree. The foundation year builds the literacy, numeracy, and study skills that degree-level work requires, ensuring that students from a range of prior educational backgrounds can access the main programme. You will develop communication skills across both formal and informal contexts, build an understanding of how digital media functions in professional and public life, and develop the reflective habits that allow you to learn from experience.
The main programme gives you a thorough grounding in English law alongside the criminological theories and evidence that help make sense of crime and justice.
Graduates of Law with Criminology are well placed for careers in legal practice, the criminal justice system, police, probation, social work, policy, and research. Many pursue further qualifications leading to solicitor or barrister status, while others enter agencies and organisations across the criminal justice system with an analytically grounded understanding of how they function. Journalism, public affairs, and advocacy organisations focused on justice reform also recruit graduates with this profile.
Postgraduate study in law, criminology, or social policy is a natural next step for those seeking specialisation.