Forensics Colleges & Universities

Students considering a career in forensic investigation are entering a landscape that has changed drastically in the past few years. While AI in criminal justice has historically relied on conventional statistical analysis, the accelerating pace of AI innovation is now driving greater use of computer vision, natural language processing, and generative AI across the systems.

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.