Master in Criminology
UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain)
Information last verified July 2026
Program Overview
The School of Criminology provides specialized multidisciplinary training which allows to understand crime in all its complexity. The training focuses on several disciplinary areas: criminal law and criminal practices; psychological processes involved in the transition to the crime; social factors acting out and social mechanisms of creation of criminal law and the conditions of its application; study of human behavior in its interaction with biological, social and psychological dimensions.
Career Opportunities
Fields of action of the criminologist are: the Fonts (federal and local) and prisons; the youth welfare: social service courts, facilities for children in care teams in the community, etc.; the prevention services created under security contracts and society; the Mental Health and Addiction; the social assistance to individuals (remand prisoners, detainees, victims, etc..) in the homes of justice in victim services, etc.; the research.
Program Curriculum
The master offers: an interdisciplinary approach to deviance from the norm (sociology, law, psychology and biology); a specialized training in legal matters in connection with the crime and the penalty; an applied learning intervention: Maintenance behaviors, conflict management and crisis situations, etc.; extensive methodological tools; an internship in the field; the possibility of a part of your master abroad. SpecializationsThe Master in Criminology offers a Professional focus "criminology of the intervention" and a Research focus. The professional focus interdisciplinary in critical criminology is dedicated to students from the Université catholique de Lille who come to follow courses during a quadrimester at UCLouvain as well as to students from UCLouvain who will go on an exchange stay at the Université catholique de Lille.
Admission Requirements
Are you interested in issues of deviance; you plan to perform duties in the field of prevention and repression of crime; you place the individual at the center of your concerns and you want to be socially useful; you are looking for a training that prepares you for the response on the ground.
Tuition & Financial Information
Detailed tuition information is not available. Please contact the university for the most current tuition and fee information.
Application Deadline
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About UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain)
UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain)
Brussels, Belgium
UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain) is one of Belgium's largest and most prestigious universities, founded in 1425, offering programmes across science, engineering, medicine, humanities,...
University Profile- Start Date September
- Language French / English
- Duration 2 years
- Credits 120
