Graduate Entry

Bachelor of  Policing (UWS)

The Bachelor of Policing equips graduates with a comprehensive knowledge of policing as a distinct area of academic study. It provides a thorough grounding in the skills required to undertake effective policing or related careers. Students study a range of specialist policing units, and also units of their choice drawn from the behavioural sciences, humanities, human services, law, languages and the social sciences. This will equip graduates with a broad understanding of the role of police in society.

The curriculum recognises the complexities and challenges of contemporary policing and explores the application of policing practice to a changing Australian society. Course content traces the history of policing and its relationship to societies being policed.

While most students entering the course are seeking a career within NSW Police, the course continues to offer graduates alternatives to a NSW policing career. It is sufficiently broad to be attractive to graduates seeking career choices with national intelligence agencies, border protection authorities, other State and Federal police agencies, juvenile justice, corrections and other human services organisations.

More information: University of Western Sydney

Bachelor of Justice Studies (CSU)

Students enrolled in the Policing course will study on the Bathurst Campus of CSU for their first two years and then transfer to the NSW Police College at Goulburn for Trimester 1 of the last year of their three-year program. This means that CSU’s graduates wishing to join the NSW Police Service will be sworn in as Probationary Constables at the end of the first trimester of their third year. The final two trimesters of the course are completed by distance education while employed as a Probationary Constable.

This degree has been designed with extensive consultation with police, the justice community and academics, to ensure it is vocationally relevant and up to date with latest issues. Community service and police practice placements give students a systematic introduction to the professional environment. The policing studies completed within the degree, plus a further trimester of study undertaken on campus at Goulburn, meet academic requirements for employment in the recruit training program of the NSW Police Force.

More information: Charles Sturt University