Criminology and Anthropology | Oxford Brookes University

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Course summary

Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your own areas of interest within Criminology and Anthropology whilst also providing you with a solid foundation in the discipline which will serve as a springboard for your future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable you to gradually develop your knowledge and skills to become effective and independent learners.

Criminology is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary subject concerned with analysing the nature, occurrence and explanations of crime, criminal behaviour and societal responses to these phenomena. When you study Anthropology, you’ll explore what makes us human, what drives our diversity and how we’re connected to our environment.

Links between research and undergraduate teaching are an important and distinctive feature of the programme, and the combined research experience and competencies of staff have shaped its design, content and delivery.

We are Top 20 in the UK: Criminology and Anthropology is ranked 16th in the Guardian Anthropology and Archaeology subject league ranking 2025.

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Application codes

Course code:: L3L6
Institution code:: O66

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Data from:
This course and 6 other sociology courses: Date range:
2022-2024

Offer rate for UK school & college leavers

99% Students aged 17/18 who applied to this course were offered a place.

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70 Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)

80 Go onto work and study

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