Forensic Science and Technology at University of Maryland Global Campus

If you plan to study forensic science and technology, take a look at what University of Maryland Global Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and approximately 58,526 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Forensic Science and Technology section at the bottom of this page.

UMGC Forensic Science and Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Forensic Science and Technology

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UMGC does offer online courses in forensic science and technology for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC Forensic Science and Technology Rankings

The forensic science and technology major at UMGC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Forensic Science and Technology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Forensic Science and Technology Student Demographics at UMGC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the forensic science and technology majors at University of Maryland Global Campus.

UMGC Forensic Science and Technology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 23% of forensic science and technology bachelor's degrees went to men and 77% went to women. The typical forensic science and technology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% men. So male students are more repesented at UMGC since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its forensic science and technology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Global Campus with a bachelor's in forensic science and technology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	31
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Related Majors

• Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By M Chambers under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.