"Our digitally transformed world creates many new opportunities for misconduct. Criminals are rapidly shifting their field of activity to the digital domain providing a growing need for trained forensic IT specialists who can act quickly and effectively in digital forensic investigations.\n\nThe full-time Master Digital Forensics is a one-year programme aimed at students with a bachelor's degree ICT with the specialisation Forensic IT or an equivalent professional degree in the field of ICT who are interested in continuing their studies and specialising in Digital Forensics.\n\nYou are directly admissible with a bachelor’s degree ICT with specialisation Forensic IT from Leiden University of applied Sciences. For bachelor students Informatics, Computer Science, ICT or Bio-informatics we offer the minor \"Digital Forensics\". This minor serves as a pre-master's track for the Digital Forensics master's degree. Students who successfully complete the minor and their bachelor's degree can directly start their master's degree in Digital Forensics.\n\nIf you have a professional degree equivalent to a bachelor's in the field of Computer Science, ICT or Informatics there may be the option to follow a pre-master's programme to meet the necessary prerequisites. Please complete the intake process to determine if you qualify for the pre-master programme.\n\nThe master programme is designed to immerse you in the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of Digital Forensics. We focus on:\n\nAdvancing your technical skills in modern-day digital forensics and investigations.\n\nAcquiring the necessary management and communication skills required to perform forensic investigations.\n\nLearning how to use analytics, AI, and ML methodologies, and applying forensic frameworks to manage large-scale investigations."