Hi Mariesa

Champlain College has a masters in Digital Investigation Management. This is intended for people with a bit of forensic experience who are looking progress their career to the next level. You can find out more here: extra.champlain.edu/master/msdim/

In the interest of full disclosure I will mention that I am the Program Director for the course.  

While I like Champlain College, the cost associated with the programme put it out of reach for a lot of folks (including myself)... a pity, really....

URI and UCF both offer good programs whose only shortfall is that neither University is on the NSA list ( www.nsa.gov/ia/academi...ions.shtml )...

Also keep in mind that going strictly for a degree in "Forensics" may limit future career choices...  

- Mike.Wilkinson

Hi Mariesa

Champlain College has a masters in Digital Investigation Management. This is intended for people with a bit of forensic experience who are looking progress their career to the next level. You can find out more here: extra.champlain.edu/master/msdim/

In the interest of full disclosure I will mention that I am the Program Director for the course.

Sadly this program is more centered on the management aspect of forensics rather than a research masters. I believe that the program should be more like the CDF Masters Program in Dublin, where it's not management based. Your not going to get hired as a manager when you have no idea how the real world works....  

Hi Mariesa,

I'm a little late to the party on this post, but I'll throw in my 2 cents.

I obtained a Bachelor's in DF through Champlain College (expensive) and am now halfway through my Master's in DF at UCF. Since I live in Tampa, I'm doing half of my classes online and half on-campus. I would not hesitate to recommend the Master's program at UCF.

The BS program at Champlain focused mostly on Windows systems, while my third class at UCF forced me to dive deep into Linux to do some reverse engineering of malware.

One other note regarding inspectaneck's tip, I found it much easier to have a spare computer with Linux as the sole OS. While others were beating their heads on the wall trying to get virtual instances of Linux working for their assignments, I was moving through mine with no problems.  

Thank you Muirner - this actually meshes well with my degree. I have a BS in Technical Management and my specialty is Computer Forensics. So I have both a management and a technical background. I'm interested in the technical aspects though, so I'll take a look into both.

Thanks,
Mariesa Limmer  

Just to throw in my two cents...

I'm also a student of the MSDF at UCF and am really enjoying it. I received my bachelors from UCF in IT, so I was already a bit biased.

I wouldn't worry about UCF not being on the NSA's IA list... UCF doesn't have an IA program (and IA != DF, in my very limited opinion), so UCF wouldn't have a chance to be on the list currently.  

Well after taking a look at cost UCF is out of the question. I'm out of state and would require private funding, which I don't qualify for. (I don't have a credit worthy co-signer either.) Chaplain looks good, but the costs appear to go beyond Federal loans. That puts me back at URI for their Graduate Computer Forensics Certificate and the consideration of transferring into their CIS program once done.

Thank you everybody for the info,
Mariesa Limmer