how many years of college is needed for forensic science?
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Training to Become a Forensic Scientist \n\nThere are two main elements in the training required to become a general forensic scientist. The first involves academic courses, and the second, on-the-job training usually with one of the main suppliers of primary services to police. \n\nAcademic requirements:\n\nRequirements in respect of academic qualifications depend on the ultimate goal. For instance, to become an assistant forensic scientist or equivalent or a technical specialist, you are likely to need at least four good passes at GCSE including English and either science (Biology/Chemistry) or Maths, and at least one A level in a science subject. To become a case-reporting forensic scientist and/or a forensic science researcher, you will usually require at least a good first degree in Biology, Chemistry or related subject, followed up, in many cases, by a postgraduate/MSc qualification in forensic science or direct employment. \n\nTraining on-the-job:\n\nOn-the-job training tends to be best catered for by suppliers of forensic science services to police and other law enforcement agencies as it is in these organisations that there is the breadth and depth of casework to provide the necessary experience. Such training generally includes a combination of specialist in-house courses and practical casework - all forming part of a professional apprenticeship
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You already know, I assume, that you first need a bachelor's degree, which typically takes four years. Then, as others have noted, it's three years in law school. Then comes the fun of passing the California bar exam, purported to be one of the toughest in the nation.
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YOU GO GIRL! It really depends - what state you live in and if youre willing to move out of state...\n\nThis was the field I wanted to get into. I went to college, asked the counselors what courses to take. They told me to take Administration of Justice, so I did. I now have a BS in Crim Justice - but that wasnt what I needed to do forensic work! DO NOT listen to your counselors...they are morons. You need to study Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Get a degere in one of those, then you can apply with the FBI...better than a regular forensic specialist in the field...\n\nLive my dream - Im too old to now!
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A medical examiner is a physician.  After 4 years of med school, you need to finish a 4 year pathology residency and then a fellowship in forensic pathology (I think it is 1 year, may be 2).  For more info check out the website for the National Association of Medical Examiners at www.thename.org/  .
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I think that you will find that if you want to do forensic science that you will have to have at least some chemistry. Much of what you do as a forensic scientist is chemical analysis, so that is important. It involves a great deal of biology, as well.\n\nMy sense is that you should major in biology, or at least minor in it. Do you have access to a biological anthropology (or medical anthropology) degree program? That will give you some more biology, as well as understanding bones, bodies and things like that.
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it depends on what field you are going into. for example forensics would require intensive writing and research skills. whereas being an officer probably would require you to correctly spell 4or 5 letter words.
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If you want to go to the crime scene and collect evidence, you'd pretty much need to become a police officer and major in criminal justice.\n\nIf you want to work in the lab and analyze the data, you'd want to major in forensic chemistry (usually offered as a separate chemistry major, sometimes with a biology department)\n\nIf you want to do autopsies, you need to go for your M.D.\n\nNo job will have you do everything, probably because it's inefficient to have an M.D. doing all that work AND there is a conflict of interest. (It's easier to prosecute if 5 independant people analyze the evidence)
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That answer depends on what you take before grade school and after high school. Assuming you had Pre-School and you are going to a 4-year University for a BA, then you would have gone through 18 total years of school.\n\nHow to figure? Add the usual 1-12, Kindergarten (1 year), Pre-school (1 year), and either of the following:\n\n> Associate's Degree (2 years)\n> Bachelor's Degree  (2 Years)\n> Master's Degree    (4 Years)\n> Ph.D.              (6-8 years)
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All you need is a B.A. degree in Criminal Justice.
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If you want to be some kind of technician or police officer, two year is fine. If you want to learn a lot and have a more interesting job with more money, you have to go to a 4-year college. Get as much education as you can.
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AS degree must be an Associates Degree which generally takes two years to complete.\nBA is a Bachelor of Arts Degree and would generally take four years to complete.  A BS Degree is a Bachelor of Science degree which is the same as a BA except you take different courses such as two years of a foreign language instead of a statistics class.\n\nA Masters degree is obtained once you receive a BA or BS in a subject such as English, Political Science, Biology, Social Science, Psychology, etc.  A Masters Degree generally takes two years to complete, during which you do research on a topic of interest to you for presentation.\n\nPhD. requires another two plus years and involves writing a doctoral dissertation and presenting it to the university for review and certification.  I am sure there are many more requirements that I am unaware of as I only recently received my BS in Social Science myself.
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Looking on the web, I would suggest that you look towards doing a College/University course in Forensic Science, as this appears to be the general requirement of the job.
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I am a a double major working towards a \n\nB.S. in Chemistry with an emphasis in Biochemistry\nB.A. in Anthropology\na minor in Forensic Science\n\nI chose this for my field of study because ever since I was about 5 years old forensics has always amazed me. With the Anthropology degree I can study osteology ( study of bones) and with Chemistry I can learn different ways of analyzing substances be it trace evidence, blood, stool, hair samples toxicology, etc. What I would ultimately like to do is to be able to identify or help identify a person and why they died so that the family's can have closure and so that if foul play was involved justice can be found. While it is very tough, I love my classes, and with Chemistry esp. if I get a Master's I will be one of the fews students who can say I will definately sought after for a job before graduating. The demand for competent chemists is high.
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I would think it is "all of the above".  Forensic science uses physical evidence, it is a science and uses the scientific method to investigate and analyze the evidence in labs, and uses wonderful technology to assist in the analysis.
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Most cops, jailers, and probation officers around here are required to have at least a four year degree these days.
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You need four years of an undergraduate degree. A Masters degree can take one or two years if you go to school full time.
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Forensic Psychology, if you have a sciences background then Forensic Medicine.