Business Cyber Security Graduate Certificate

Enhancing Business Resilience

The Business Cyber Security (BCS) graduate certificate program provides students with a fundamental understanding of the principles and practices of cyber security in business and organizational settings. The objective of this certificate program is to introduce students to tools, techniques, and methods that aid cyber security professionals to participate in the full spectrum of security program planning, including security policy development and planning for incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management. The certificate will also provide students with the skills required for the more applied practices of network security, application security, threat detection analysis, prevention, and remediation.

Program Delivery: Main Campus only
Admit Term(s): Fall, Spring

What to expect

Admissions

Current Manderson Graduate School of Business Students

All current students in good academic standing (minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0) and who are enrolled in a graduate degree program within the Manderson Graduate School of Business are eligible to be considered for admission to a graduate certificate program after one full semester of completed coursework. Current graduate students may combine their degree with a graduate certificate. Courses completed for the certificate may be applied towards the elective requirements.

Non-Manderson Students

To be considered for admission, applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university. Previous academic history, letters of recommendation, demonstrated motivation and aptitude to undertake graduate-level work, and professional experience are all taken into consideration.
To apply, a student must complete an application and provide transcripts from each undergraduate and graduate academic institution as well as a professional resume, one letter of recommendation from a person with relevant professional or academic standing with respect to cybersecurity, and a statement of purpose. GMAT or GRE scores are not needed.
NOTE: Students who are enrolled in a certificate program and not in a master’s, doctoral, or Educational Specialist program will be classified as non-degree students. For more information on the academic policies regarding graduate certificates, applicants can refer to the UA Graduate Catalog.

Curriculum

Minimum Required Hours: 12 credit hours
- All 12 credit hours earned in the BCS certificate program may be used directly in the Management Information Systems (M.S.) degree program.

NOTE: Students who have completed a slash-listed 4XX course may not take the corresponding 5XX course for graduate credit (e.g., cannot complete MIS 405 and then take MIS 505 for graduate credit). Students may, however, re-take the 5XX course for the purpose of earning the graduate certificate.

Code and Title		Hours
MIS 561	Applied Cyber Security	3
MIS 564	Org. Security Management	3

MIS 505 or	Enterprise Network & Security
MIS 563	Behavioral Cyber Security	3

MIS 511 or	Management Information Systems
MIS 566	Intro Cybercrime & Digital Forensics	3

Total Hours		12

Connect with Your team

April Ingram

Director of Specialized Masters and Ph.D. Programs

aaingram@ua.edu
(205) 348-5497
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