PHD COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERSECURITY CONCENTRATION - DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Students must meet all the degree requirements for the PhD CS General program, click here. In addition, the following requirements must be satisfied:

1. Graduate coursework counted for the Ph.D. program must contain at least three graduate courses from the Cybersecurity course list below. These courses focus on theoretical and/or applied cybersecurity. Additional courses may be approved by the dissertation advisor. Graduate courses completed during the master's degree program may also be used to meet this requirement.
2. The student's Ph.D. dissertation research and scholarship must have a strong emphasis on one or more areas of cybersecurity, including but not limited to applied and/or theoretical areas.

Cybersecurity course list:

1. CDA 5326 Cryptographic Engineering
2. CIS 5371 Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
3. CIS 6370 Computer Data Security
4. CIS 6375 Distributed Systems Security
5. COT 6427 Secret Sharing Protocols
6. CAI 6803 Data Analysis and Modeling for Cybersecurity
7. CIS 6730 Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies
8. MAD 5474 Introduction to Cryptology and Information Security