While evaluating UMBC’s master’s degree program in electrical and computer engineering last year, focus groups concluded that cybersecurity is “the hot area to go into, with a lot of need there,” according to Chris Morris, assistant vice provost for continuing and professional studies. In January, the new Master’s in Professional Studies in Cybersecurity will provide students with a combination of technical, policy- and strategy-based courses.
The article, “Cybersecurity comes to college classrooms,” ran August 27 in the Daily Record.
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