The Value of a Master’s Degree in Cybersecurity

In today’s rapidly evolving and expanding digital environment, the need for experts with advanced skills to fight against and protect from cyber attacks continues to grow. The cybersecurity courses offered in our master’s degree program will provide you with increased levels of proficiency in products and applications, the skills to build secure and dependable systems, the opportunity to conduct hands-on cybersecurity research, and so much more.

Professionals who hold a graduate degree make thousands more annually than those who hold a bachelor’s degree. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, many jobs for computer and IT-related professionals require a master’s degree. By pursuing your master’s in cybersecurity, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills needed to be considered for leadership roles, and in turn, position yourself as an indispensable thought leader in your field.

Why Study Cybersecurity at Sacred Heart?

Experience SHU’s renowned and highly sought-after program

Drive your career forward in SHU's top-ranked Jack Welch College of Business & Technology (WCBT). In the top five percent of elite business schools worldwide, cybersecurity courses in the WCBT are taught by accomplished faculty with a record of prestigious scholarship and professional experience.

Sacred Heart University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) for the Master of Science in cybersecurity program. SHU is the first in the state of Connecticut to receive this designation.

Graduating with a master’s degree in cybersecurity from a CAE-CD designated university gives potential employers a high degree of confidence in hiring its graduates as their degree curriculum closely aligns with NSA-recommended cybersecurity-related knowledge units (KUs), validated by subject matter experts in the field.