BSc (Hons) Cyber Security at Keele University

Are you excited by technology and problem-solving, and keen to understand how to stay one step ahead of cyber threats? Our Cyber Security degree, designed and taught by leading researchers in the field, prepares you to play a key role in protecting people, processes and technologies in a fast-growing industry. With practical experience tackling real-world challenges, you will graduate ready to defend the systems shaping our future.

Faculty: Faculty of Natural Sciences  |  Department: School of Computer Science and Mathematics  |  Duration: 3 years or 4 years with international or placement year  |  Study mode: full-time; placement year option  |  Intake: 2027 entry  |  Location: Keele, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 compulsory modules: Introduction to Cybercrime: Systems, Society, and Security. Year 2 compulsory modules: Secure and Usable Software Development. Year 3 compulsory modules: Security Management, Governance, and Human Factors.

Career pathways

You will graduate with a wide variety of subject specific and transferrable skills across many areas including problem solving, computational thinking, team working, management and modelling. By following the cyber security pathway, you will learn competencies required to protect information systems (hardware, software and associated infrastructure), the data on them, and the services they provide, from unauthorised access, harm or misuse.

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