PG Diploma in Criminology

at University of Manchester

Course unit details

To meet the requirements of the taught element of the course, you must take course units totalling 120 credits.

This is normally attained with eight 15-credit course units, with 60 credits taken each semester. The availability of individual optional course units is subject to change (due, among other factors, to staff availability to deliver the course units in any given year).

Part-time students take four out of the five compulsory course units in the first year, and then take the other one in year two. The remaining 60 credits of optional course units are selected and taken accordingly over the two years.

Exit awards: If you fail to fulfil the requirements to pass 120 credits, you can qualify for the Postgraduate Certificate by passing 60 credits at the pass mark of 40%.
 

Course unit list

The course unit details given below are subject to change, and are the latest example of the curriculum available on this course of study.
 

Title

• Advanced Theoretical Criminology
• Evaluating Policy & Practice
• Criminal Justice Research & Policy
• Research Design
• PG Crime Mapping: an introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis
• Understanding Violence
• Data Analysis with R & RStudio
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Prisons: Exploring the Carceral World to the UK
• Research Strategy and Project Management

Academic entry qualification overview
 

• We require a UK bachelor's degree with a Lower-Second classification or the overseas equivalent, in any discipline.
• We will also consider criminal justice and related practitioners with considerable work experience.
• When assessing your academic record we consider your degree subject, grades you have achieved and the standing of the institution where you studied your qualification.
   

English language
 

Applicants whose first language is not English should meet the following language requirements:

• IELTS Academic test score of 7 overall, including 7 in writing with no further component score below 6.5

• TOEFL IBT 100 with 25 in writing and no further score below 22 in each section. TOEFL code for Manchester is 0757

• Pearson Test of English (PTE) score of 76 overall, with 76 in writing and no further score below 70
   

You are not required to submit an English language certificate at the time of application, however if you are eligible for an offer it will be subject to meeting our English language requirements.

• PGDip (full-time)
  
  UK students (per annum): £7,000
  
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £14,000

This degree is designed to appeal to recent graduates looking to work in:
 

• local/central government;
• the criminal justice agencies (eg as a criminal intelligence analyst within the police);
• probation;
• the voluntary sector, NGOs, pressure groups;
• think-tanks such as The Howard League Reform Trust;
• the private sector.