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Your Future in Cyber Security
Create future-shaping innovations with Lewis University’s 100% online Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS). Through hands-on coursework, research and capstone experiences, you will learn advanced computing while honing your problem-solving, analytical and creative abilities. Gain highly valued tech knowledge and skills in this rapidly growing field, and get ready to shape tomorrow’s technology in dramatic ways.
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Online Master of Science in Computer Science
Shape the Science of Technology
With your MS in Computer Science from Lewis University, you’ll receive a market-relevant education that is immediately applicable to the field. With the option of taking the program 100% online, its is customizable to your needs and designed with the working professional in mind. Through hands-on coursework, you can hone your research skills and become an innovator in the ever growing computer science field. Every course is taught by expert faculty with deep field knowledge and experience and with 3 different concentrations, you can tailor your MS degree to your career goals.
Specializations Include:
- Cyber Security – learn how to identify, monitor and investigate organizational cyber-threats, as well as how to recommend steps and create responses to combat them. Ranked as a Top 20 Best Online Masters in Cybersecurity with courses like Digital Forensics, Enterprise Network Security and Encryption and Authentication.
- Intelligent Systems – design and implement computing systems that perceive, act and learn. Use machine learning techniques to improve the performance of computer-based systems and create experience-based models for solving problems.
- Software Engineer – develop software for a variety of platforms and systems, including mobile devices and the web. Design data storage systems that solve problems, and incorporate security controls and protections throughout the software design and implementation process.
Every student is required to complete a capstone thesis or project resulting in a publication-worthy document or a computer systems project sponsored by an external organization. Your work will display your innovation and problem solving abilities to future employers.
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Why Lewis University?
Online MS in Cybersecurity
Lewis University has been consistently ranked a “Top Tier University” by U.S. News & World Report, named one of the “Best in the Midwest” by the Princeton Review and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. With small class sizes and the ability to take courses online, you’ll have access to experiences faculty who actually work in the field from virtually anywhere. You’ll gain access to the latest versions of commercial and open-source software and be prepared for careers such as a Cyber Security Engineer, Software Developer, and Database Engineer. With the faculty’s connections in the computer science industry job opportunities and real-world projects are brought to Lewis.
Be prepared for some of the best jobs of the future. Business Insider’s ranking of jobs found that 13 of the 15 hottest tech jobs paying over $100,000 are in computer science.
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