The Master of Science in Cybersecurity is a fully online degree program - a one-of-a-kind Ivy League graduate program offered by Brown University's Computer Science Department.
Brown is a longtime cybersecurity innovator, and the program's curriculum is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach that provides students with sophisticated technical skills and a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity technology and policy at the local, national and global levels.
Our program offers two tracks: the Computer Science Track and the Policy Track, offered in collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Graduate students will benefit from online courses taught by world-class faculty and industry experts that will prepare them with real-world solutions for a career that's in demand. When our students examine cybersecurity events such as the SolarWinds incident, they explore politics and history alongside the technical elements of cyber threats.
Through your coursework, you'll:
- Gain intellectual and scientific frameworks for approaching novel cybersecurity challenges
- Assess security and privacy implications of emerging technologies to identify vulnerabilities and create solutions
- Develop methods for understanding and describing threat intelligence through demonstrations of vulnerabilities, attacks and defenses
- Examine the technological, economic, human, legal, organizational, socio-political and policy challenges in this field
Additional Information
Time Commitments, Planning and What to Expect
As an online graduate student, you will attend many of the same classes as other Brown students, but remotely. This means that while some class sessions will be held live and in person for on-campus students, you'll have the ability to fully participate by viewing recorded sessions and engaging online with all other class activities. Attendance at a set class time will not be mandatory and you won't be penalized for missing live sessions. Many courses (and all required courses) will allow online attendance to live sessions, and you will have the ability to join them if your schedule allows.
You can complete the entire program asynchronously - you'll view lectures when your schedule permits during each week of classes. The program is not self-paced, so you'll need to stay on schedule with the same assignment deadlines and readings as your in-person classmates.
Prospective students with additional questions about the program should contact John Tracey-Ursprung ([email protected]).
