MSc - Cyber Security with Placement Year: Fees & Entry Requirements at University of Hertfordshire, UK

MSc - Cyber Security with Placement Year

UK

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What will I learn?

About the course One of a range of degrees from the taught master's programme at the Department of Computer Science. This course considers current research and practice in cyber security. You will build the fundamental and advanced aspects of cyber security in terms of theory, practice, policy and security standard to enable critical cyber security decision marking, the extant threats to current and emerging systems and networks and the effective countermeasures to such threats in compliance with information security management standards, and the social, legal and ethical issues relating to cyber security in the context of digital forensics, information security management, penetrating testing and cyber operations. The programme offers three award routes that you can choose to study: MSc Cyber Security MSc Cyber Security with Placement Year MSc Cyber Security with Advanced Research

Study options

Full Time (2 Years)

Tuition fees
£22,450.00 (24,46,067) per year
Accommodation Studio en suite - (College Lane campus) - 42 weeks 262.71 p/w (11,033.82) Single en suite - (de Havilland campus) - 42 weeks 190.19 p/w (7,987.98)

This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

January 2027

Venue

College Lane - Campus

College Lane,

Hatfield,

Hertfordshire,

AL10 9AB, Southern England, United Kingdom

Full Time (2 Years)

Tuition fees
£22,450.00 (24,46,067) per year
This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Start date

September 2026

Venue

College Lane - Campus

College Lane,

Hatfield,

Hertfordshire,

AL10 9AB, Southern England, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

The normal requirement is a good honours degree (or equivalent) in computer science or cognate discipline. The choice of award title students may be accepted on to will be determined by the award applied for and the prior learning of the student as demonstrated by the transcript for existing qualifications held by the applicant.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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