I can personally vouch for and recommend University College Dublin (UCD) here in Ireland. I am currently doing the Masters in Digital Investigation & Computing Forensics myself and i am REALLY enjoying it. The course is well laid out and presented.
In particular 2 projects which i really enjoyed was working on a kidnapping case that they got a writer to come up with and they set up 3 disk images. You use provided software such as X-Ways, Net Analysis etc. to investigative the 3 images and figure out what happened and the story behind the kidnapping.
The second was a live pen testing project where we had to attack an environment set up for us and discover its vulnerabilities, exploit them and then document how best to fix the vulnerability. We had about 2 months to complete each project and i loved doing both of them.
Currently have a class of about 50-60 people, 35 or so of those people are all doing distance learning from all over the world. All classes are streamed live whenever the class is scheduled for and each classes is recorded and uploaded to moodle. So if you do not manage to catch the live stream, you can watch the recording at your own convenience.
Through the year i think there are only 2 mandatory days of attendance, 1 for exams and 1 for a workshop. The rest all assignments can be submitted online via moodle.
The course modules for this year consist of:
Digital Investigation & the Law (Written assignments + take home exam)
Corporate Investigations (Practical assignments of HEX and tracking down an individual and investigating fraud happening in a company.)
Information Security (Written assignments + Practical penetration testing project
Computer Forensic Foundations (Practical HEX based assignments + solving kidnapping case + exam)
Investigative Techniques (All practical workshops, interview techniques, scene searches, how to seize digital evidence etc.)
Application Forensics (Assembly/Dis-assembly assignment + Wigmorian chart assignment + Essay based on papers from chosen topic + exam)
Research Project (Minor Dissertation) Topic of your choice in the field.
Regards
Stephen
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