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Thomas Ouellette
Benjamin Gibbs heads the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Ball State University. He says the new program will offer a bachelor's of science in forensic sciences. Its first year begins next month, and he says it's already seen success from the number of students enrolled.

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Benjamin Gibbs
Right now, we have 38 enrolled and one section and and I just admitted another yesterday. So now we're up to 36 in the second section. Keep in mind those are both over enrolled as we kept him at 30.

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Thomas Ouellette
The program offers students the choice of concentrating in one of four areas of forensics, including digital, behavioral, chemical and biological. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the forensics job market is estimated to grow by 13% within the next eight years. In Muncie, I'm Thomas Ouellette IPR news.