• This one-year postgraduate program aims to create specialists with a deep understanding of cyber security’s impact on every aspect of modern life, and to empower cyber security leaders for a resilient, more productive digital future.
• Undertake advanced level courses covering a range of key topics. You will learn about the major cyber security challenges facing the world and a range of responses, including technical, policy, organisational, governance and geo-political.
• Gain integrated learning experience and advance your professional network by working with a cohort with diverse backgrounds from technology, business, mathematics and humanities, unique to UQ.
• Look at the field from a different angle, ask bigger questions, and find new and exciting ways to tackle real and emerging cyber security threats. You will acquire a global perspective on cyber security and information security fundamentals.

General academic:

• an approved Bachelor Degree in a relevant area of study with a GPA of at least 4.5 on a 7 point scale; or
• an approved Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in a relevant area of study with a GPA of at least 4.5 on a 7 point scale.

A relevant area of study for a field in:

• Cyber Defence is a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering or Mathematics.
• Cyber Criminology is a degree in Sociology, Criminology, Criminal Justice or Crime Science.
• Cryptography is a degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Actuarial Science or Information Technology.
• Leadership is a degree in Commerce, Management, Business, Accounting, Information Technology, Computer Science, Leadership. In addition applicants must minimum of 5 years of supervisory/management experience. This may include, but is not limited to: managing a team of people, managing client accounts, the managerial components of any major projects, resource planning, direct responsibility for financial delegations.