Jan 28, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Cybersecurity and Justice, MS


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NEW PROGRAM BEGINNING FALL 2025

The Master of Science in Cybersecurity and Justice focuses on both the technical elements of the field and its interdisciplinary components, including the legal, investigative, ethical, and management dimensions. 

After completing the MS in Cybersecurity and Justice, students will be able to work independently to defend a system during a cyber-attack, collaborate with a team taking on a variety of NICE-defined work roles to stop a cyber-attack in process, critically analyze cybersecurity incidents within the broader context of local, regional, national and international cybercrime to best structure their institutional policies and reconfigure systems to defend against future attack. 

Students will also learn to facilitate communication regarding cybersecurity incidents with colleagues within a broad range of cybersecurity roles, as well as those outside the field, employ specialized software appropriate for each investigative stage, execute cybersecurity and digital forensic investigations under appropriate ethical guidelines, and more!

 

Learning Outcomes   

Admission Requirements


  • Online Application
  • Resume or Curriculum Vitae
  • A preferred undergraduate GPA of 3.0 based upon four years of coursework
  • Three appropriate letters of recommendation
  • Official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate coursework
  • Statement of Purpose
  • GRE scores are optional

Foundation requirement (1 credit)


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  • *The Foundation requirement may be waived if the student has completed , with a minimum grade of “B”, of the corresponding upper-division undergraduate cybersecurity course as part of their baccalaureate degree, taken a graduate-level cybersecurity course, or has relevant cybersecurity work experience.

Total minimum credits: 30-32


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