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Cyber Security with a Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

Birmingham City University

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

  • Location

    Millennium Point Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    4 Years

Course summary

Cyber Security with a Foundation Year ensures you will develop a range of academic and technical skills relevant to cyber security. The Foundation Year course option enables you to study for our BSc (Hons) degree over an extended full-time duration of four years by including a Foundation Certificate (year one of four). The Foundation Certificate provides a broad study programme that underpins the follow-on degree. In order to progress to the next year of your degree, it is necessary to achieve a pass in all of the modules of the Foundation Certificate.. The BSc Cyber Security course is designed to equip you with state-of-the-art technical knowledge, intellectual know-how, management capabilities and practical skills that will enable you to succeed in meeting the cyber security challenges facing modern organisations. In the 21st century, data has become a necessary commodity, which has value in isolation and more so when viewed as a larger data set for trends and habits. Data is key to the functioning of modern business and the protection of this data is key to the ongoing success of the digital economy. Enhancing your employability Your studies here will equip you with the practical and academic skills that will help you to stand out when you look for your first professional role. Because we have strong links with companies such as SAS, Microsoft, Cisco and Capgemini, you have the chance to work with and understand the workings of real-life industry from early on in your degree studies. You will have access to world-class facilities throughout your time here and these will help you to be a highly employable graduate. The University has a Graduate programme, an extracurricular awards framework that is designed to augment the subject-based skills that youve developed throughout the programme with broader employability attributes, which will enhance your employability options upon graduating.

PLACEMENTS

You have the option undertake an assessed sandwich year between your second and third year, which will provide you with valuable work experience and give you the real-life skills you need.

Application deadline

29 January

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

£ 16,085per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

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Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University

  • University League Table

    92nd

  • Campus address

    Birmingham City University, University House, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, Birmingham, B5 5JU, England

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Live and study in an affordable multicultural city with a diverse multi-ethnic population.
Many master's courses offer international students optional six-month professional placements towards the end of their studies.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Information Technology & Systems

    8th out of 22 3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 151
    143 95%

    5th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    68.0 68%

    17th

    4

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.41 85%

    1st

    6

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