...Avoid predatory programs.
Class size above 20 and tuition 20k+ per year, and it's a good chance it's a "predatory" type program. Any program where you are not trained full-time and in residence on a college of university campus should also be regarded with extreme suspicion. Any program that allows you to keep your day job is almost certainly not going to provide adequate doctoral level training.
If your goal is to be any kind of licensed doctoral level psychologist, get some good research experience now and go above and beyond and work hard to do a very good job (including seeking out opportunities to disseminate your research through presentation and publication). This will make it more likely that you will be a good candidate for a fully funded, university based doctoral program (mostly Ph.D., but some Psy.D. as well) with faculty doing clinical and research work your area of interest. These types of programs will involve you doing some research, but the trade-off is they won't cost you anything (other than opportunity costs), and you'll likely get a stipend along the way. You'll then have a higher likelihood of being a stronger candidate for good pre- and post-doctoral internships in your area of interest. This will set you up better for a "real job" in the future, with an opportunity to begin your career without huge, soul-crushing, amounts of debt. Please note that most of us who went this route are now in clinical positions with little-to-no involvement in conducting research.
There are other routes (both "Ph.D"- scare quotes intentional!- and Psy.D.), but these
OFTEN involve substandard training, way too much work on the part of the student to find appropriate (and paid!) practica, and a lower chance of getting any APA internship, let alone a top choice. These other paths may result in you having to pay $1000-$1500 per month in student loan debt, which is crippling and should be unfathomable.
Sounds like you are doing some work in forensics now. Make sure that you do some research regarding the typical work tasks and environments of practicing forensic psychologist. There is a lot misconception about what they do. Popular culture would have you believe that they spend most of their time on crime scenes doing profiling or conducting highly emotional, non-structured interviews with "perps" and prison cells, often resulting in an angry confession by the suspect once they realize they have been outwitted by the brilliant and wily "Doctor." I don't know much about the reality of the field, but something tells me it involves a fair bit of waiting for the phone to ring, a whole lot of testing, enough malingering to make you doubt the validity of a lot of what you do, and way to much having you conclusions and competency challenged.
