Course Overview - Forensic Science with Industrial Placement
**This four-year Forensic Science degree with a placement year allows you to experience real-life forensic science and impress future employers in the workplace.**
Studying at our Medway Campus, youll benefit from new crime scene facilities. These include a purpose-built vehicle examination garage, modern lab spaces, decomposition facilities, and a mock mortuary. Well guide you through practical crime scenes and mass disaster scenarios and let you try out your Disaster Victim Identification skills.
Youll be taught by industry experts with years of hands-on experien...
**This four-year Forensic Science degree with a placement year allows you to experience real-life forensic science and impress future employers in the workplace.**<br/><br/>Studying at our Medway Campus, youll benefit from new crime scene facilities. These include a purpose-built vehicle examination garage, modern lab spaces, decomposition facilities, and a mock mortuary. Well guide you through practical crime scenes and mass disaster scenarios and let you try out your Disaster Victim Identification skills.<br/><br/>Youll be taught by industry experts with years of hands-on experience and work alongside experts from Kent Fire Brigade, the Metropolitan and Kent Police, Counter Terrorism, and other organisations. Well help you find a placement, and if successful, youll have the chance to showcase your skills to an employer in the field and make a strong impression for your future career.<br/><br/>The course is accredited by the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences (for which youll receive free membership throughout your studies). Whether your passion is for homicide investigation, blood pattern analysis, molecular biology, fingerprints, toxicology, ballistics or beyond, well give you the training and skills to become a professional scientist.<br/><br/>**What you should know about this course**<br/>- Use the placement year to get a head-start in your future career. Showcase your growing scientific skills to employers, as you work alongside industry professionals<br/><br/><br/>- The University of Greenwich is third in the UK for forensic science (Guardian League Table 2023)<br/><br/><br/>- Forensic science is ranked 6th in the UK (The Complete University Guide 2023)<br/><br/><br/>- This course is taught at our Medway Campus in Chatham Maritime, Kent.<br/>