Master of Science - Digital Forensics

MSc Digital Forensics trains evidential computing: file-system and memory forensics, mobile device examination, network forensics, malware analysis fundamentals, and the law of digital evidence, taught to the standard that findings must survive hostile cross-examination. The source export flags a higher academic bar for this course — a 77% undergraduate score — which the sheet maps to a newly inserted percentage profile noted for verification.

DMU’s cyber labs give each student imaging hardware and the professional toolchain — write-blockers, EnCase/FTK-class suites and open-source equivalents — and casework is run as full investigations: seize, image, examine, report, then defend the report in mock proceedings. The optional extended stage in the 12-month-plus structure suits students adding an industry-linked project, and the course sits beside the Cyber Security MSc within the same technology faculty.

Note the admission asymmetry the sources create for this course: the portal export’s 77% academic bar is the highest in the computing cluster and is preserved verbatim in this sheet, so counsel borderline candidates toward Cyber Security instead, where the stated bar is the standard 70% and the toolset overlaps substantially at the incident-response end.

Career honesty: the clearance wall means the public-sector forensic jobs that motivate many applicants are largely closed to new international graduates, so counsel toward corporate incident response, eDiscovery and consultancy, which hire at £26,000–£32,000 and value the same skills. Post-study permission comes via the Graduate Route for this taught degree — 18 months where the application is made from 1 January 2027, two years beforehand — and taught-route students cannot bring dependants.