Forensics Colleges & Universities

Podcasts like Serial set a new bar for the genre. Suddenly, true crime podcasts weren’t just guilty pleasures: they were Peabody-winning stories that could have an impact on precisely the topics that they were exploring.

For an unattended death, law enforcement must use a combination of investigative techniques and science to calculate how much time elapsed between the victim taking their last breath and their remains being found.

Forensic science is one of those fields that looks straightforward from the outside. You get the degree, you get the job, you work the cases. And somewhere in that mental picture, many aspiring forensic scientists might assume that certifications play the role they play in other professions, a marker of expertise, a signal to employers, a box to check on the way up.