We’ll give you the freedom to decide your own journey. Suspicious deaths, ballistics, bioarchaeology – just a few of our optional modules but wherever your forensics interests take you we can support your studies.

Coupled with an extensive research project in your final year, external industry speakers and industry placement opportunities, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running when you graduate.

On campus, you will develop your practical forensic skills in our Crime Scene Training Facility and in specialist forensic laboratories – all fitted out with the same industry-standard equipment used by professional forensic practitioners.

This Masters-level course deepens your knowledge and skills, both at the crime scene and in the laboratory, along with an understanding of relevant legislation and legal procedures.

Employers in the fields of chemistry, biology and physics as well as forensic science highly value graduates with a strong background in:

• scientific investigation
• the reconstruction of events
• the presentation of findings.

These skills are invaluable for careers in:

• forensic science
• law enforcement (for example, the police, Customs and Excise, immigration and fraud investigation)
• academic research.

Our recent BSc (Hons) Forensic Science graduates have achieved the following careers:

• Derbyshire Constabulary – forensic services assistant
• De Montfort University – microbiology lab technician
• Reckett Benckiser – analytical assistant
• Nottinghamshire Police – police constable
• Harlan Sera Limited – laboratory technician
• Boots – pharmacy development analyst
• Premier Analytical Services – microscopist
• Surrey Police – intelligence processing assistant
• Nanosight – particle physicist.