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5 Top Forensic Science Programs for International Students

30th March 2016 Posted by: Student World Online

WHETHER you want to be a crime scene investigator or a toxicologist, there are a number of different career paths you can take with a forensic science degree. Many people remain in the field of science and go on to be pharmacologists, laboratory assistants or researchers, but the level of analytical, evidence-based thinking that you’ll learn doing the degree can be incredibly useful in other fields of work. For instance, some people go on to become solicitors or teachers and the skillset gained from their forensic science education prepares them for these sorts of roles.

But where in the world can you expect to get a decent forensic science education? After much investigation of our own, we’ve come up with five of the best.

1. Texas, USA

Texas A&M University offers a well-known and well-regarded course in forensic and investigative sciences. There are a number of specific paths you can take, which each offer various modules and components that make up your forensic education. For example, take the Forensic Investigator course and you’ll be learning all the important basics to set you up with a career in a police force, like forensic photography and courtroom testimony. Opt for Major Crimes Investigator and you’ll learn the same, but additionally death investigation, bloodstain pattern analysis and skeletal death investigation. Sounds pretty comprehensive, doesn’t it?

2. Bournemouth, UK

For a course that’s heavy on science with a substantial theoretical underpinning, head to Bournemouth University, where the core units include things like chemistry, cell biology, human anatomy and physiology and an introduction to forensic investigation. Year two will see you lean the basics of forensic law and practice while being able to choose additional modules ranging from bonobos, bones and bottlenecks to geographical information systems. You can opt to do a placement in your third year, and in your final year you can learn all about human remains and what they can tell you. This course is clearly not for the squeamish kind…

3. Copenhagen, Denmark

The University of Copenhagen has a very impressive and active department for forensic medicine. The staff at the department undertake forensic investigations for police forces in Denmark and some of its outer reaches (like Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and ranges from the criminal to the historical. You’ll be among minds that are deciphering results from archeological digs to determine how old a skeleton is, as well as those who are trying to work out whether someone was bludgeoned to death or died of natural causes. An exciting place to be, don’t you think?

4. Melbourne, Australia

Deakin University is the first Australian university and the only one in the Asia-Pacific region to offer professionally accredited forensic science courses, so potential forensic investigators are queuing out the door to get into the lecture theatres of this institution. There are two BSc courses to enroll on: Forensic Science and Forensic Science/Bachelor of Criminology, so you can choose how criminally-orientated you want your education to be. It doesn’t really matter though in all honesty – both courses will be as exciting and enriching as each other.

5. New York City, USA

The prize for the most does-what-it-says-on-tin university goes to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Based in NYC, you’ll finish the course and will be able to draw appropriate scientific conclusions from evidence and experimental data, understand the role of creativity in problem solving and apply scientific principles in gathering and interpreting scientific data. What’s more, throughout the course you’ll accrue hands-on laboratory and practical research skills, including emphasising the role of quality assurance and objectivity in scientific data collection and how these relate to the system of professional ethics in science, meaning you’ll be lab-ready as soon as you graduate. Watch out criminal underworld, the Forensic Science graduates are coming…


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