Bachelors of Business / Criminology and Criminal Justice

From day one, this double degree at Griffith University isn’t just about reading theory — it’s designed to get you working with real-world experiences like internships, mentoring, and hands-on workshops. By the time you graduate, you’ll be ready for work, not just exams. Over the course of the program, you’ll combine business skills—like management, finance, or marketing—with a deep understanding of crime, policing, courts, corrections, or financial-crime compliance, giving you a unique, versatile skill set that’s highly sought after.

Here’s a taste of the practical opportunities you’ll enjoy:

Internships and professional placements: Right from first year, you’ll have chances to do internships and work-integrated placements, applying what you learn in real-world settings and building valuable professional experience.

Mentoring and workshops: Alongside placements, you’ll access mentoring programs and structured workshops designed to boost your employability and connect you with professionals in both business and criminal justice.

Flexible business majors + criminology specialisations: In your second and third years, you get to choose a business major—like finance, management, financial-crime investigation, marketing, or international business—and shape your criminology focus to suit your career goals. This makes your degree highly relevant to the path you want to take.

Courses bridging theory and practice: You’ll dive into topics like policing, criminal law, forensic psychology, homicide, and financial-crime investigation. This mix ensures you understand how crime and justice systems work from multiple perspectives.

Research-led teaching with leading academics: Griffith’s criminology program is recognised internationally. You’ll learn from active researchers with strong links to the field, so your learning is current, evidence-based, and grounded in real social justice work.

University-wide work-integrated learning support: Beyond your degree, Griffith’s Work-Integrated Learning framework helps you find placements, internships, and community projects, ensuring hands-on experience is built into your study journey.

If you go for the Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Griffith University, you’d graduate with a really flexible and powerful foundation — opening doors to diverse career paths. Many grads end up working in policing, corrections or intelligence roles; others work in policy‑making, crime analysis or social‑welfare agencies; and some join the private sector in compliance, risk management or corporate governance roles.

Here’s what this means for you:

• Griffith supports students extremely well through career services: you’ll have access to individual career‑counselling sessions, help with CVs and interview preparation, and career‑planning resources to help you target jobs that suit your strengths and interests.

• You’ll get practical exposure via internships and work‑integrated learning through the criminology side — the program offers placement opportunities in policing, justice, health, corrections, security and community services. That means you won’t just study theory: you’ll get real‑world experience.

• Because Griffith’s criminology school is one of the largest in Australia and recently ranked No. 1 for research in criminology, criminal law and policing, you benefit from up‑to‑date curriculum shaped by top research — which gives you a clear edge whether you enter the workforce or continue academically.

• The dual degree combines business skills (management, finance, compliance, etc.) with deep insight into criminal justice. That makes you well‑suited not only for traditional justice/social‑sector roles, but also for corporate roles dealing with compliance, financial crime prevention, risk assessment — or even entrepreneurship with a social impact focus.

Further Academic Progression:
After graduating, if you find yourself drawn to deeper research, policy development or senior roles, you could opt for the Honours year in Criminology & Criminal Justice at Griffith. That’s a one‑year (full‑time) or two‑year (part‑time) research‑focused program — ideal if you want to build skills in project management, independent research or prepare for a master’s or PhD later. Alternatively, you could also explore postgraduate coursework (for example in law, criminology, public policy or business fields), leveraging your dual degree’s breadth to pivot into many different advanced‑study or leadership pathways.