What makes Accounting and Finance at Worcester special? Our degree in accounting and finance aims to build your skills portfolio for a rewarding career in the field of accountancy or finance.

What makes Digital Media Production and Graphic Design at Worcester special? Digital Media Production and Graphic Design cover a broad combination of creative areas. You will learn how to design and create a range of traditional and digital platforms to develop your concepts into reality.

Combining Creative Writing and Media & Film Studies creates a unique opportunity to explore storytelling across multiple mediums. Develop your skills as a writer across different genres and forms, such as poetry, prose, and media writing, and cultivate your critical thinking abilities through analysis of media and film case studies. At Worcester, we introduce you to the professional techniques and technologies currently used in industry to help prepare you for careers in areas such as copywriting, media research, and public relations.

Criminologists look at the reasons people commit crime and find ways to reduce re-offending, exploring the impact crime has on individuals and society. On this course you not only get to explore a range of subjects - including criminal profiling, law, victimology and cybercrime - you also get to meet people working in these areas. Guest speaks come in from the police, price and probation services, and employers from around the country join us for our criminology careers fair. With volunteering opportunities, work placements and strong employer connections, you'll gain practical experience alongside your academic studies.

Our flexible Business Management degree explores the latest thinking in innovation, creativity and contemporary issues. You'll work with academics and practitioners who have extensive experience of management, consultancy or running their own business. The course also offers regular careers coaching, and benefits such as our professional network of academic staff, business leaders and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Move into an exciting career in business management - whether in the private, public or voluntary sector. Our Business Studies degree has a strong focus on innovation, creativity and personal development. You'll be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills that are most highly valued by employers. You'll also gain 'real world' experience through applied projects, placements, internships and a period of study abroad.

You will be given a foundation in the main genres of Creative Writing and the fundamentals of contemporary professional writing and editing. Over three years you will explore writing prose, poetry, life writing and media writing, taught by award winning writers and guest speakers from industry. You will have the opportunity to attend a vibrant series of lectures, workshops and readings from visiting writers.

Studying Animation and Screenwriting in combination allows for the cultivation of complementary skills in demand in a range of creative and technological careers. You’ll develop your own visual style and voice through learning and applying a variety of scriptwriting and animation theories and techniques. You will explore the interplay between creative and technical and have opportunities to bring your creativity to life.

You'll gain subject expertise in business and marketing, alongside a grounding in contemporary business issues (such as globalisation, digital communications and the growth of social media). You'll be able to demonstrate your business knowledge through active experience, such as applied consultancy projects, paid placements, internships and study abroad. This active experience will show that you are a creative, customer-oriented and commercially-focused graduate with a broad range of skills that are valued by employers.

Combining Criminology and Sociology allows you to explore how these subjects inform each other and how they can support your development of an interdisciplinary perspective. You’ll have the opportunity to discover how crime is influenced by social and economic factors, as well as investigating how various political approaches have impacted general society and its crime rates.

Studied in combination, Animation and Filmmaking provide you with an exciting opportunity to develop your creative abilities across a range of moving image practices, forms, and applications. You’ll cultivate your creative craft and digital skills through use of state-of-the-art software and facilities, supported by lecturers with years of industry experience.

Studying Animation and Illustration as a joint honours degree reflects today’s world of multimedia communications and publishing, in which illustrators and animators work together in a wide range of contexts. You’ll focus on drawing as a tool for thinking and visualising, from conceptual sketches through to full-colour finished pieces. The course will nurture your creative development through practical portfolio building and showcases, connecting you with the international illustration and animation communities. Students graduate with experience and skills suited for the fast-paced digital design world.

Our Criminology with Policing degree will prepare you for a range of rewarding roles in the criminal justice system. You'll develop an understanding of criminology from different perspectives, in areas such as crime, criminality, victims and vulnerability. The policing course content takes key elements of the College of Policing Core Curriculum - a requirement for all student police officers – and combine these with forward thinking elements from other associated professional bodies. Our criminology and policing modules will put you in a great position to pursue a career in the police force or to work alongside members of a police service. You'll learn from specialist practitioners and real-world experience, so you'll get a genuine taste of the work police officers perform on a day to day basis and work you could be doing after you graduate.

Set yourself up for a future career in the well-paid finance sector by developing competence in business finance and general management. This course gives you access to specialist academic staff, business leaders, and the professional financial services network, including exemption from ICAEW. You’ll gain an insight into general management and access a wide range of optional modules that complement your development as a specialist in financial management. Subject expertise in business and finance (including contemporary issues such as globalisation, global trade, governance and sustainability) signal that you are a numerate, astute and commercially-focused graduate.

Studying a joint honours degree in Creative Writing and Illustration combines two highly complementary disciplines that span creativity across both written and visual forms. You’ll develop your artistic and writing abilities, allowing you to produce work that showcases your development in both areas of study. The course provides theoretical and practical training in the form of lectures, seminars, and workshops to support your growth as a writer and artist, led by staff with years of professional experience. Students graduate with a portfolio of work that will demonstrate skills desired by a wide range of job roles.