Criminology BA

University of Nottingham · honours · 3 years · optional placement year · optional year abroad · UCAS 6547course page ↗

Graduates earn a median £32,500 three years on.

Pay three years after graduating
£32,500

median, based on 705 graduates · half earned £26,000–£41,000 · Discover Uni (LEO)

Year 13 · applying

What do you need to get in?

Entry requirements for this course are not yet on file; see the university’s course page.

Nottingham course page, read 19 September 2026 · Discover Uni entry profile

Who actually got in: 99% with A levels, 1% via Access courses, 1% with other higher education. Based on 135 entrants.
After graduating

Where does it lead?

£32,500median pay three years after graduating
Lower quarter£26k
Median£33k
Upper quarter£41k

Median — the middle earner: half earned more, half less. Pay is for graduates of this subject at this university who finished in 2016-18, not adjusted for inflation; based on 705 graduates.

Discover Uni dataset (HESA and Office for Students, CC BY 4.0, contains HESA data); earnings from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes data (Department for Education) · aggregation level 11, 14, 21

Half of graduates earned between £26,000 and £41,000. Five years on, the median is £44,000. 84% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing; 77% of those in work were in professional or managerial jobs.

All outcome figures7
MeasureValueBased on
Continue after year 14% left96%120
In work or study, 15 months on5% studying84%405
Professional or managerial job77%300
Pay 15 months on, median£32,500205
Pay 3 years on, median£32,500705
Pay 5 years on, median£44,000745
Money

What does it cost?

Fees not on file; see the university’s fees page.

Nottingham fees page

National Student Survey 2025-26

What do students say?

85%agreed the course was good overall (question 26)

NSS — a yearly survey of final-year students at every UK university; 68% of this course’s final year answered. Small groups can swing a lot year to year.

National Student Survey, via Discover Uni · 75 students answered

Highest: 96% agreed on question 1; lowest: 62% on question 24.

All questions26
QuestionAgree
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Question 2189%
Question 2285%
Question 2381%
Question 2462%
Question 2574%
Question 2685%

Question texts are published by the Office for Students; the dataset carries only the question numbers.

Modules, entry requirements and fees are facts read from University of Nottingham’s course page on 2026-09-19 and may change; the university’s page is authoritative. Descriptions are not reproduced. Outcome figures are from the Discover Uni dataset. University of Nottingham is a trade mark of the university; sch.today is independent of it.