Cybersecurity Degree Programs

Start Your Career in a Fast Growing Industry

Study cybersecurity online or on campus at Liberty University

The current US cybersecurity workforce gap is over 500,000, and most of the jobs in cybersecurity require a degree.¹

Liberty offers Information Systems (IS), Information Technology (IT), and Computer Science (CS) degrees that will prepare you for entering one of the highest paying careers in the Information Technology field.

Decide which type of cybersecurity job is right for you, and let Liberty University prepare you for success.

Learn more about Liberty’s Cybersecurity activities:

Check out the Center for Cyber Excellence
Learn more about cybersecurity career paths and employment opportunities by state.

¹Cybersecurity statistics were taken from Cyberseek.org.

What’s Your Passion?

Get ready to meet the cyber challenges of today and tomorrow with IS/IT/CS degrees in these career fields:

Security GRC

Get involved in the Security Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) of an organization.

Help with the creation, operation, and maintenance of Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards.

With a career in GRC, you will work to assess and reduce the risk of the organization to cyber attack.

Careers in Security GRC

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Security Policy Manager
Security Manager
Information Assurance

Security Technology

Through the Security Technology career field, you would help to provide a security architecture of the enterprise network and systems within an organization. The security architecture will be based on a risk assessment.

Then you will implement a wide range of security controls to raise the security posture of the organization and mitigate emerging threats.

Careers in Security Technology

Penetration Tester
Security Engineer
Security Analyst
Security Architect
Ethical Hacker

Secure Development

Help to solve tomorrow’s cybersecurity challenges with a career in Secure Development.

Start by understanding today’s underlying principles and theories of the technologies used in IT.

Then develop new solutions to meet tomorrow’s challenges by implementing security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Careers in Secure Development

Secure Developer
Reverse Engineer
Malware Analyst
Threat Hunter
Security Researcher

Information Systems (IS) – Security GRC Jobs

Information Technology (IT) – Security Technology Jobs

Computer Science (CS) – Secure Development Jobs

The Department of War and National Security Agency have designated Liberty University as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for the B.S. in Information Technology with Data Networking and Security Cognate.

*Cybersecurity statistics were taken from CompTIA and Cyberseek.

Faculty Spotlight

Executive Director for the Center for Cyber Excellence

Richard Bansley

Professor Richard Bansley served over 20 years in the United States Navy as a signals intelligence specialist. He earned his Navy Aircrewman wings as an airborne electronic warfare analyst and trainer. As a Navy instructor, he developed the course curriculum and taught joint service computerized SIGINT collection and analysis techniques, earning a Navy Master Training Specialist certification.

Professor Bansley maintains the SANS GCIH and GRID certifications and has also worked as a project manager and senior staff engineer for multiple space and defense and other federal government customers.

School of Business Building

An 80,000-square-foot, three-story building houses Liberty University’s School of Business. Featuring a number of innovative spaces, the building includes:

Center for Cyber Excellence
On premise Student Data Center (SDC)
Information technology/labs
500-seat auditorium
Center for Entrepreneurship
Center for Financial Literacy