BSc (Hons) Forensic Science at University of Greenwich

With purpose-built facilities and links to local emergency and counter-terrorism services, choosing Greenwich for a forensics degree is the best decision you will make for your forensics future. Our Forensic Science degree gives you hands-on investigative experience in our dedicated crime scene facility, complete with a purpose-built vehicle examination garage and modern laboratories. You’ll carry out research in specialist decomposition and entomology spaces and work through realistic crime scenes, mass disaster simulations and Disaster Victim Identification exercises in our mock mortuary.

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Science  |  Department: Science  |  Duration: 3 years full-time; 4 years sandwich  |  Study mode: full-time; sandwich  |  Intake: September  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

No 3 London university overall (Complete University Guide 2027). We offer specialist forensic provision, outstanding laboratory and crime scene facilities. Practical facilities allow you to practice scenarios you will find in the workplace, including crime scene examination rooms and vehicles and an entomology facility. You will be well prepared for careers in areas like homicide investigation, blood pattern analysis, molecular biology, fingerprints, toxicology, and ballistics.

Career pathways

This degree will equip you with the broad scientific training and transferable skills that will give you the maximum opportunity for choice in your career. Graduates may pursue roles in forensic science and criminal justice, but also in management, communications and the wider pharmaceutical, chemical and biological sectors.

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