- Courses
- Requirements
- Sequence
- Accelerated Pathway
Total Credits Required: 36
- Required Foundation Course: 6
- Required Core Courses: 24
- Required Capstone Course: 6
This program requires a total of 36 credits.
Initial Requirement
- (0 Credits, UCSP 615)
This course must be taken within the first 6 credits of study (if required). The UCSP 615 requirement may be waived if you previously earned a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution. For more information, contact your academic advisor.
Core Courses
- (3 Credits, MGMT 610)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 615)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 640)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
Concentration Courses
- INMS 600
- INMS 610
- INMS 620
- INMS 630
- INMS 640
- INMS 650
- INMS 660
Capstone Course
- (3 Credits, MGMT 670)
* This information is for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year. For prior year requirements for this program or to review UMGC's complete program requirements for a specific academic year, visit our program catalog archive
- (3 Credits, MGMT 610) and (3 Credits, MGMT 615) must be taken as the first 6 credits.
- (3 Credits, MGMT 640) should not be attempted simultaneously with (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
- Concentration courses should be taken in the order listed.
- INMS 600 and INMS 610 must be taken as the first two concentration courses.
- INMS 660 must be taken after all concentration and core courses, except (3 Credits, MGMT 670).
- You must complete 24 credits of program coursework, including all core courses, before enrolling in (3 Credits, MGMT 670)
- (0 Credits, UCSP 615)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 610)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 615)
- INMS 600
- (3 Credits, MGMT 640)
- INMS 610
- (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
- INMS 620
- INMS 630
- INMS 640
- INMS 650
- INMS 660
- (3 Credits, MGMT 670)
Accelerated Pathway
If you completed your undergraduate degree at UMGC with a major in cybersecurity technology, an accelerated pathway between UMGC undergraduate and graduate programs in cybersecurity allows you to earn 6 credits toward the following programs:
- Master's degrees in Master of Science in Cloud Computing Systems, Cyber Operations, Cybersecurity Management and Policy, Cybersecurity Technology, or Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation
- Graduate certificates in Cloud Computing and Networking, Cyber Operations, Cybersecurity Management and Policy, Cybersecurity Technology, or Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation.
To be eligible for the pathway, you must enroll in a related graduate program within two years of completing Current Trends and Projects in Computer Networks and Cybersecurity (3 Credits, CMIT 495).
If eligible, you may be awarded credit for the introductory course in the specified graduate program—either Communicating, Problem-Solving, and Leading in Cybersecurity (6 Credits, CBR 600) or Decisive Thinking, Communicating, and Leading in Technology Fields (6 Credits, DCL 600T). You may only earn credit for one course through this accelerated pathway.
Total Credits Required: 36
- Required Foundation Course: 6
- Required Core Courses: 24
- Required Capstone Course: 6
This program requires a total of 36 credits.
Initial Requirement
- (0 Credits, UCSP 615)
This course must be taken within the first 6 credits of study (if required). The UCSP 615 requirement may be waived if you previously earned a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution. For more information, contact your academic advisor.
Core Courses
- (3 Credits, MGMT 610)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 615)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 640)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
Concentration Courses
- INMS 600
- INMS 610
- INMS 620
- INMS 630
- INMS 640
- INMS 650
- INMS 660
Capstone Course
- (3 Credits, MGMT 670)
* This information is for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year. For prior year requirements for this program or to review UMGC's complete program requirements for a specific academic year, visit our program catalog archive
- (3 Credits, MGMT 610) and (3 Credits, MGMT 615) must be taken as the first 6 credits.
- (3 Credits, MGMT 640) should not be attempted simultaneously with (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
- Concentration courses should be taken in the order listed.
- INMS 600 and INMS 610 must be taken as the first two concentration courses.
- INMS 660 must be taken after all concentration and core courses, except (3 Credits, MGMT 670).
- You must complete 24 credits of program coursework, including all core courses, before enrolling in (3 Credits, MGMT 670)
- (0 Credits, UCSP 615)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 610)
- (3 Credits, MGMT 615)
- INMS 600
- (3 Credits, MGMT 640)
- INMS 610
- (3 Credits, MGMT 650)
- INMS 620
- INMS 630
- INMS 640
- INMS 650
- INMS 660
- (3 Credits, MGMT 670)
Accelerated Pathway
If you completed your undergraduate degree at UMGC with a major in cybersecurity technology, an accelerated pathway between UMGC undergraduate and graduate programs in cybersecurity allows you to earn 6 credits toward the following programs:
- Master's degrees in Master of Science in Cloud Computing Systems, Cyber Operations, Cybersecurity Management and Policy, Cybersecurity Technology, or Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation
- Graduate certificates in Cloud Computing and Networking, Cyber Operations, Cybersecurity Management and Policy, Cybersecurity Technology, or Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation.
To be eligible for the pathway, you must enroll in a related graduate program within two years of completing Current Trends and Projects in Computer Networks and Cybersecurity (3 Credits, CMIT 495).
If eligible, you may be awarded credit for the introductory course in the specified graduate program—either Communicating, Problem-Solving, and Leading in Cybersecurity (6 Credits, CBR 600) or Decisive Thinking, Communicating, and Leading in Technology Fields (6 Credits, DCL 600T). You may only earn credit for one course through this accelerated pathway.
Gain Career-Focused Experience
In this degree concentration, you’ll apply critical-thinking, evidence-based research, and analysis skills to the study of advanced technology integration, cyber threats, budgeting, communications, leadership, workforce development, interagency collaboration with public and private national security organizations, and reform, as well as to the priorities, laws, and policies regulating the U.S. intelligence community.
Our program directors refresh and update the curriculum regularly, with a focus on helping students achieve these learning goals:
Practice Real-World Skills in Your Online Courses
Throughout your curriculum, your instructors will assign in-depth coursework that will help you prioritize real-world, higher-level skills and hands-on experience. In past courses, students have been able to complete the following course projects:
- Assess how the Intelligence Community should prioritize and resource the emerging cyber intelligence discipline and determine what makes it different from traditional disciplines.
- Create an assessment using the three analytic methods discussing the conclusions drawn from that analysis. Reflect on the utility and value of each of the three analytic methods, explaining why each technique was successful or unsuccessful. Show how the choice of analytic methodology can impact the results of analysis.
- Develop a strategy to coordinate counterintelligence activities of entities that will be affected by an international scientific exchange program where post-graduate scientific and technology scholars at research universities from 16 nations are exchanged, creating the potential for foreign governments and others to illegally acquire classified and other legally restricted information.
- Analyze an emerging technology and investigate its application to an issue in law enforcement. Examine how this new technology impacts law enforcement intelligence, analyze the government’s legal authority to use the technology to enforce the law, and identify privacy and civil liberties concerns.
- Write a contingency intelligence augmentation plan to support the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command with additional resources that a leader will use to consider available support options and recommendations.