Forensic science degree

Hi there, I am currently working in specimen booking in for a laboratory over the summer but this irrelevant, I am starting college in August to study nq6 applied science in hopes of attaining my HNC afterwards, I looked at the courses the HNC can open up to me. However what are my chances of getting into a forensics course and of course what job prospects are there afterwards? I’ve heard negatives about it. However one thing is for certain I want to go into forensics in the future and have done way before I even knew the csi show existed so I am not influenced by that, just any advice on the course if possible, what sort of prospects for future careers I can expect would be helpful as I haven’t seen a lot on the universities I looked at.