Forensics Colleges & Universities

The massive volume of electronic data produced and stored has created new and exciting career opportunities in emerging fields like cyber security and computer forensics. Electronic Discovery (E-Discovery) is a means of combatting cybercrime, and more specifically a specialization of computer forensics that deals with collecting, producing and recovering Electronically Stored Information (ESI) as part of a lawsuit or ongoing investigation.

Wildlife forensics is not new—California’s Wildlife Forensic Laboratory has been operating since the early 1950s—but it’s still far less well-known than its human-centric counterpart, despite being both scientifically rigorous and undeniably cool.

The field of forensic nursing is still generally new in title, but has been around in some form or another due to the interest of a registered nurse named Virginia Lynch who, as far back as the 1980s, realized that nurses could negatively impact the criminal justice field by unknowingly removing evidence from victims that could be crucial to investigations or trials.