RPC-SO-07-No.103-2025
Criminalistics
The Criminalistics program prepares well-rounded professionals capable of investigating, analyzing, and verifying criminal acts through scientific and technical methods. The program prepares experts in criminalistics with strong command of investigative tools, the use of information technologies, proper handling of evidence, and an ethical, professional, and responsible approach in national and international contexts.
Mode of study
In-person
Duration
4 years
Why study Criminalistics at ECOTEC?
Ranked among Ecuador's top private universities, ECOTEC integrates international academic quality standards (QS Stars, Times Higher Education, Innovatec) with a holistic education vision. We stand as a benchmark among Ecuadorian universities committed to innovation, sustainability, and global employability.
Degree awarded: Bachelor’s Degree in Criminalistics
Admission Requirements
Color copy of the national identity card or citizenship card, or passport for international applicants.
Copy of high school transcript or academic record.
Updated digital photograph.
Graduate Profile
Carry out processes of analysis and interpretation of information in diverse contexts, promoting the assessment of data to make well-founded judgments, while maintaining a reflective and respectful approach toward different viewpoints for the purpose of contributing effective solutions to complex problems.
Effectively lead work teams, assuming commitments that contribute to the improvement and development of an organization, promoting collaborative leadership to strengthen cohesion and achieve common objectives, with an ethical and responsible attitude in joint decision-making for conflict resolution.
Generate original ideas in diverse contexts, promoting the association of concepts and the identification of relationships among factors to address challenges innovatively, while maintaining an open and flexible attitude toward change with a critical approach to implementing original and creative solutions.
Develop a logical and structured sequence of research processes autonomously and creatively to generate new knowledge and apply and strengthen existing knowledge, collecting and analyzing data clearly and coherently, while maintaining a critical and ethical approach throughout all stages of the research process.
Rigorously apply the scientific method in criminal investigation through systematic and validated procedures for processing the crime scene and analyzing both physical and digital evidence, ensuring the objectivity and reliability of the results obtained, while always maintaining a commitment to truth and professional ethics.
Analyze specialized techniques for comparing and contrasting known and questioned elements, based on the fundamental principles of criminalistics related to detailed observation and identification, in order to establish well-founded conclusions that respond to the forensic questions raised by courts of justice, acting with thoroughness, objectivity, and commitment to scientific rigor.
Identify safety standards and standardized protocols for action in forensic laboratories, enabling the use of good practices in the handling of evidence, ensuring the scientific validity of forensic analyses, and demonstrating methodological rigor and commitment to good professional practices.
Prepare technically substantiated expert reports to clearly and precisely communicate the results of forensic scientific analyses before judicial and administrative bodies, recognize the role of the expert witness, and demonstrate objectivity and professional ethics in the reasoning of conclusions that contribute to the administration of justice.