Criminology and Crime Preventionpart time degree programmes for professionals, distance studies
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Master
- Standard period of study (amount)
- 4 semesters
- Location
- Berlin
- Deadlines
- Please enquire
Overview and admission
Study Type
graduate
Admission semester
Winter Semester only
Area of study
- Adult Education
- Administrative Studies
- Social Work
- Sociology, Social Science
- Guidance
Focus
Principles of Criminology, Crime Prevention, Empirical Social Research, Victimology and Restorative Justice, Crime Phenomena, Legal Principles of Crime Prevention, Developmental Prevention, Project, Network and Cooperation Management, Research or prevention project
Target group
The degree programme is aimed at all those who work in the field of crime prevention, such as in prevention bodies, the police, probation services, municipal administrations, social work, child and youth welfare, business, in criminal policy, in authorities or associations and who have a certificate of academic degree and at least one year of professional experience after the first certificate of academic degree.
Annotation
The four-semester Master's degree in Criminology and Crime Prevention is offered in career-integrated form and commences in the October of each year. In addition to eight core modules, the degree course offers three compulsory elective modules. Each module is completed with an examination. You will write your Master's thesis in the fourth semester. In distance learning course in blended learning format, the teaching mainly involves self-study. For self-study, the teaching content is made available in online format for individual use whenever you would like. This teaching content is analysed, discussed and deepened in the synchronous online and/or face-to-face formats. Courses are therefore held online twice a week (3 lessons each in the evening). In addition, one attendance weekend (Friday/Saturday) is planned per semester on the campus of the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
Lecture period
01.04.2025 - 31.07.2025
Application deadlines
Winter semester (2024/2025)
Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants
Please refer to the relevant degree course web page. For the postgraduate courses of the Berlin Professional School special application deadlines apply.
Deadlines for International Students from the European Union
Please refer to the relevant degree course web page. For the postgraduate courses of the Berlin Professional School special application deadlines apply.
Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union
Please refer to the relevant degree course web page. For the postgraduate courses of the Berlin Professional School special application deadlines apply.
Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students
Please refer to the relevant degree course web page. For the postgraduate courses of the Berlin Professional School special application deadlines apply.
Tuition fees
Various instalment payment options are offered.
Languages of instruction
Main language
German