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Study Details: MSc 2-5 years online
Build essential foundation skills, while gaining hands-on experience with the latest industry case studies, and prepare for real-world career success in the cyber security field.
Key features
This degree offers a combination of modules covering important areas such as security management and governance, cybercrime, applied cryptography and information privacy. Through these modules, you’ll gain hands-on experience with the latest industry case studies to help you make an impact at any organisation.
You’ll benefit from the wide-ranging expertise of pioneering and influential academics, researchers and professionals in the cyber security field. As you advance through the curriculum, you’ll learn about the most relevant tools, techniques, and technologies from thought leaders defining the future of cyber security.
This degree is targeted at career-minded individuals who wish to develop their professional skills with academic and practical insights into the subject of cyber security. You will gain practical experience through hands-on lab sessions simulating real-life scenarios, which will allow you to understand how to connect academic and theoretical cyber security knowledge.
Studying a University of London degree online gives you the flexibility to work while you study, turning almost any location into your own classroom without the costs of face-to-face study on campus.
Earn an internationally recognised qualification from the University of London. The University has a track record of teaching, innovation and research dating back 160 years.
Entry route One: Direct entry route
To qualify to register for the MSc, PGDip or PGCert you will need a bachelor’s degree which is considered at least comparable to a UK second-class honours degree from an institution acceptable to the University.
Entry route Two: Performance-based admissions route
If applicants do not meet the requirements for direct entry, they can apply for the MSc via the performance-based admissions (PBA) route. To qualify for entrance via the PBA route you will need a third-class bachelor’s degree or Aegrotat.
Applicants with an appropriate professional experience qualification from a recognised professional body will be considered on an individual basis. Students on the PBA route may transfer to the MSc on successful completion of two modules (30 credits).
Entrance requirements for stand-alone individual modules
To qualify to register for a stand-alone individual module you will need a third-class bachelor’s degree or Aegrotat.
This degree is targeted at career-minded individuals who wish to develop their professional skills with academic and practical insights into the subject of cyber security.
You can stand out from your peers by enhancing your multidisciplinary problem-solving skills and intercultural understanding, participating in collaborative groupwork activities run by the University of London Careers Group.
MSc Cyber Security: ten core modules (15 credits each); plus one Project module (30 credits)
Individual modules
The following modules may be taken on a stand-alone basis, subject to programme module availability:
Ten core modules
Project (MSc only)
PGDip and PGCert modules
One core module
Optional modules
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