Program Overview

Master of Science in Cybersecurity

Overview

Gain technical expertise from cybersecurity leaders and practitioners through hands-on experiences.

Requirements

Students are required to complete 30 credit hours of courses, consisting of 12 credits of core, 9 credits of technical cybersecurity electives, and 6 credits in CIS/CSE courses at 600 level or higher.

Nontechnical Cybersecurity Electives

• Drawn from course offerings from units across SU including College of Law, the iSchool, and Maxwell

Employment Outcomes

Companies that Hire Our Graduates

• 2U
• ADP
• Air Force Research Lab
• Amazon
• American Express
• BAE Systems
• Bank of America
• Blackhawk Networks
• BlackRock
• Boeing
• Cerner Corporation
• Comcast
• Ernst & Young
• eBay Inc
• Ford
• EPE Innovations
• Ernst & Young
• Ford
• Goldman Sachs
• Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
• High 5 Games
• Houzz
• IBM
• IMVU
• INFICON
• Intercontinental Exchange
• Investing Channel
• Jeppesen
• Lowenstein Sandler, LLC
• McKinsey & Company
• NCC Group
• NSI-MI
• Parsons Corporation
• Petuum
• Playmaker Health
• PwC
• Rockwell Collins
• Samsung
• Securonix
• SRC Inc
• Symantec
• Syrasoft
• Telenav Inc
• ViaSat Inc.
• Walmart Labs
• WXYZ
• Yahoo
• Yelp
• Zify

Job Location

• 98% in the US
• 2% outside of the US

Job Location within the US

• 20% San Francisco Bay Area
• 18% Metropolitan New York City
• 8% Syracuse/Central New York
• 5% Metropolitan Baltimore/Washington, DC
• 5% Texas (Austin/Dallas/Houston)
• 5% Washington (Seattle)
• 3% Metropolitan Los Angeles
• 33% Other

Job Titles

• Senior Programmer
• Advisory Programmer & Data Analyst
• Computer Scientist
• Data scientist
• Digital Analyst
• Entrepreneurial Software Engineer
• Full-Stack Software Engineer
• Quality Systems Analyst
• Security Analyst
• Security Engineer
• Senior Software Engineer
• Software Developer
• Software Dev Eng
• Software Engineer Autonomous Cars
• Software Engineer-Android
• Systems Engineer
• Technology Consultant

Base Salary Range

• $45,000 – $120,000 or more

Median Base Salary Range

• $110,000 – $114,999