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Why Earn Your Certificate in Cybersecurity Informatics?

Launch your career with a certificate that demonstrates you’ve acquired highly sought-after skills.

This certificate will equip students to solve cybersecurity-related problems in the real world, particularly those related to the protection and analysis of information in real organizational contexts. Certificate students are required to synthesize new concepts and skills acquired in the courses (in computer security, data mining, software security, and mobile computing) into a final cybersecurity informatics experience.

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What Are My Career Options Studying Cybersecurity Informatics?

Tuition, Scholarships & Financial Aid

Find opportunities to further advance your career and academic studies.

UMBC participates in all federal and state student financial aid programs and offers scholarships and assistantships through the Graduate School, Graduate Departments and the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.

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Review Cybersecurity Informatics Upper-Division Certificate Requirements

Each certificate requires 12 credit hours (4 courses) to complete.

Please note: IS 607 Introduction to Information Systems (4 credits) is designed for students entering the program without a technical background. IS 607 may be waived based on experience, which will be determined during the admissions review process. Otherwise, all students must take IS 607. Those that are required to take this course must complete 16 credit hours for each certificate.

Please contact onlinems@umbc.edu, with any questions or comments about this process.

Start Your Graduate Admissions Application

Please note that application decisions can take 6-8 weeks after the program’s deadline, and depend on how many applications a department receives. You will receive an email once the department processes your decision letter. You will be able to see your decision letter by logging in to the application website. Your decision letter will be where the application checklist was. You may also check your recommendation statuses to send reminders or update contact information from the user page. If you are having trouble logging back in, you can recover your account.

Have Questions?

Please contact the appropriate Graduate School staff member for assistance, or contact our Main Office at gradschool@umbc.edu or 410-455-2537.

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Contact Information

Cybersecurity Informatics Program Contacts

Graduate Programs Manager

Shannon Carey
onlinems@umbc.edu

UMBC Graduate School Admissions Office Contact Information

Mailing Address

UMBC Graduate School
1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250

Admissions Staff

Staff are available from
Mon - Fri, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 410-455-2537

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Email Graduate Admissions at gradschool@umbc.edu.

Cybersecurity Informatics Upper-Division Certificate