The Institute currently offers two full time MPhil programmes. Both programmes have a high national and international standing and together regularly recruit around 40 students each year from around the world, and from a range of academic backgrounds. Both MPhil programmes will be running for the last time in the 2024-2025 academic year.
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From 2025-2026 academic year, the Institute will only be offering one MPhil programme. This will be a (new) 'MPhil in Criminology' programme, and it will include research methods, criminlogical theories, and optional course elements from the current MPhil in Criminology and MPhil in Criminological Research programmes. Initial information on this new MPhil programme can be found here. Further information will be published on the Postgraduate Admissions Office website in mid-September 2024. |
MPhil in Criminology Course Information [2024-2025] |
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MPhil in Criminological Research Course Information [2024-2025] |
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Admissions Enquiries
For further details about the MPhil Courses please contact the Graduate Administrators: Ms Charlotte Dove and Mrs Faith Payne.
MPhil Course Director (2024-2025)
| Dr Paolo Campana |
Postgraduate Open Days 2024
For more information, please visit the Postgraduate Open Day website.
Career Opportunities
Studying Criminology in Cambridge provides a useful preparation for a wide variety of careers. Students acquire a wide range of transferable skills such as the ability to write clearly and analytically about complex issues, to engage effectively in argument and debate, to analyse qualitative and quantitative data and to conduct independent research.
Graduates of the MPhil programmes are engaged in teaching and criminological research all over the world, and many have embarked on careers in the legal profession or in organisations working within the prison, police, probation, or social service sectors. Other former students of the Institute now hold positions in government and voluntary service organisation.