MSc scholarships for UCL’s crime, forensics, counterterrorism, and policing courses

MSc scholarships for UCL’s crime, forensics, counterterrorism, and policing courses.

UCL Security and Crime Science is home to some of the UK’s premier courses in crime and security including our MSc in Countering Extremist Crime and Terrorism, MSc Crime Science with Organised Crime, MSc Policing and MSc Crime and Forensic Science.

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We currently have scholarships available for these courses, with an application deadline of 30 April.

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World-leading research

Our courses reflect our commitment to world leading research in security and crime prevention and detection. We embed knowledge from our work into our courses and have years of experience working with police forces, crime reduction agencies and security companies.

Collaboration with industry

Our students specialise their areas of interest through their dissertations, which are often work-related. Previous topics included investigating human trafficking in the off-street sex industry in Bristol, paedophile use of online forums on the hidden internet and the persistence of DNA from bodily fluids within the context of internal child sex trafficking investigations.

A flexible approach to learning

Our courses are available for on campus study and as a distance learning online option. Our online MSc courses are particularly suitable if you need maximum flexibility in your learning pattern and can be taken from any worldwide location.

Career prospects

Many of our graduates have gone on to successful careers in the field of crime prevention and detection for public sector employers such as the Home Office, police and Ministry of Defence, or private sector companies with a crime prevention and community safety focus.

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About UCL Security and Crime Science (SCS)

Our department is the first university department in the world devoted specifically to reducing crime. It does this through teaching, research, public policy analysis and by the dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction. We are based at University College London, ranked among the top ten universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings and the UK’s University of the Year in 2024.