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Management: Intelligence Management
Master's ConcentrationThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Earn an online Master of Science in management degree with a concentration in intelligence management at University of Maryland Global Campus. Build specialized expertise that can help you prepare for careers in a field that values dedicated professionals with diverse backgrounds and skillsets. Study in a convenient online classroom with knowledgeable faculty members who are valued leaders in the field. Take advantage of our lifetime career services, available to all UMGC students and alumni at no cost. Get started today and learn how you can boost your career potential in the intelligence sector!
Program Highlights
- Think critically: Assess how the intelligence community conducts operations, applies advanced information, and resolves national security threats and crisis situations.
- Hone decision-making: Demonstrate decision-making skills in applying risk methodologies and assessments, resilience planning, organizational theory, and disaster response and recovery.
- Learn to lead: Evaluate the principles and strategies demonstrated by leaders who manage, organize, and coordinate intelligence and national security operations.
- Evaluate legal considerations: Evaluate the legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations; emerging political, legal, and policy issues; and the importance of information assurance to drive potential homeland security solutions.
- Communicate effectively: Develop community-specific public responses to homeland and national security crisis situations.
- Apply new perspectives: Distinguish the roles of cyber intelligence, cyber operations, cybersecurity plans, strategy, policy initiatives, and regulatory compliance.
- Understand technology: Analyze the impact of emerging technologies on threat indicators and analysis, collection, enforcement, targeting, and more.
- Assess threats: Assess counterintelligence, foreign espionage, cyber intelligence, violent extremism, and emerging insider and asymmetric threats, by applying holistic solutions and strategies.
Required Courses
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)
Career Preparation
This degree concentration is designed to help prepare you for a security-related career path as an analyst or specialist in federal agencies, associated organizations, state and local government, law enforcement agencies, and related employers with dedicated intelligence missions. Our online coursework can help you develop experience in areas such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; target analysis; operations and analysis; counter-terrorism and counterproliferation; cyber intelligence and espionage; emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence; and policy and oversight for national security and law enforcement.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
We recommend a recent background in finance or accounting, as well as statistics. Strong writing skills are also encouraged.
Total Program Credits
36
Transfer Credits
Up to 12
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $336 per credit hour
(Europe & Downrange)
See our Tuition Rates page for details.
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Cybersecurity Management and Policy
Master of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Stand out in the market by earning a Master of Science in cybersecurity management and policy at University of Maryland Global Campus. This career-relevant online master’s degree program will give working professionals the crucial skills that employers are looking for.
UMGC’s cybersecurity management and policy master’s degree is perfect for busy professionals who are looking to advance their management careers in this fast-growing industry. Today’s employers need working professionals who have a full understanding of a company’s governance, risk, and compliance issues. This online program will expand your knowledge base and prepare you to fill that growing need.
Program Highlights
- Understand multinational compliance requirements for cybersecurity
- Apply risk analysis concepts and models to a variety of organizations
- Incorporate cybersecurity into numerous organizations, including healthcare and financial services organizations
- Create and establish cybersecurity frameworks in both the public and private sectors
- Develop complete cybersecurity incident response plans
- Play the role of a new chief financial officer tasked with performing a comprehensive analysis of a new S&P 500 company
- Present a paper to a chief executive officer
Required Courses
Core Courses
- (3 Credits, CMAP 605)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 615)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 625)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 635)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 645)
Elective Courses
Take four of the following 3-credit courses:
- (3 Credits, CMAP 655)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 660)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 665)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 685)
- (3 Credits, CMAP 686)
Capstone Course
- (3 Credits, CMAP 690)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help you prepare to join the management team in a public- or private-sector cybersecurity organization and develop and oversee cybersecurity policy. Potential career fields include cybersecurity and policy, data protection, and information security.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
If you do not have work experience in information technology, an IT academic background, or IT certifications, we strongly recommend you take ASC 605, ASC 609, and ASC 611. These courses will give you a foundation that will help you succeed in the program. We recommend ASC 601 if you'd like to improve your graduate writing skills.
Total Program Credits
30
Transfer Credits
Up to 12
Format
- All courses are available online
- Select on-site and hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $336 per credit hour
(Europe & Downrange)
See our Tuition Rates page for details.
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation
Master of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2022-2023 academic year.
The online master’s degree in digital forensics and cyber investigation from University of Maryland Global Campus is designed to prepare you to meet the growing demand for investigative, leadership, and executive skills in analyzing and mitigating cyber crime. Learn how to determine whether a digital system has been attacked or compromised, and master reliable methods to identify, preserve, analyze, and present evidence for legal prosecution and administrative proceedings.
Program Highlights
- Design procedures at a suspected crime scene to ensure that the digital evidence obtained is not corrupted
- Conduct hands-on forensic searches to identify intrusion methods
- Employ rigorous procedures to enable forensic results that can withstand scrutiny in a court of law
- Explain the operation of digital components
- Seize, image, deconstruct, and analyze digital media for evidence
- Prepare professional reports
- Present digital forensics results in a court of law as an expert witness
Required Courses
Core Courses
- (3 Credits, DFCS 605)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 615)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 625)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 635)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 645)
Elective Courses
Take four of the following 3-credit courses:
Cybersecurity Management and Policy
- (3 Credits, DFCS 605)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 615)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 625)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 635)
Cybersecurity Technology
- (3 Credits, CTCH 605)
- (3 Credits, CTCH 615)
- (3 Credits, CTCH 625)
- (3 Credits, CTCH 635)
Data Analytics
- (3 Credits, DATA 605)
- (3 Credits, DATA 615)
- (3 Credits, DATA 625)
- (3 Credits, DATA 635)
Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation
- (3 Credits, DFCS 655)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 660)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 665)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 685)
- (3 Credits, DFCS 686)
Capstone Course
- (3 Credits, DFCS 690)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help prepare you for work in government organizations, the private sector, and law enforcement agencies in the areas of computer and digital crime.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
We recommend a background in computing and programming. If you need to improve your computing skills, we recommend you take ASC 605. If you have not taken programming courses, we recommend you take ASC 609. We recommend ASC 601 if you'd like to improve your graduate writing skills.
Total Program Credits
30
Transfer Credits
Up to 12
Format
- All courses are available online
- Select on-site and hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $336 per credit hour
(Europe & Downrange)
See our Tuition Rates page for details.
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard UMGC admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.