Bachelor of Cybersecurity

Carleton's cybersecurity research team, one of the strongest in canada, has designed a new undergraduate program in cybersecurity to help prepare future leaders in our society's defence against cyberattacks. 

It is an intensive program designed for high achieving and ambitious students who excel in math and science, who enjoy solving challenging problems and who are strongly interested in a career in computer and network security.

Degree Information

• Ransomware, malware, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDOS), spyware, simjacking, and cyberwarfare. Internet-based attacks on our society are in the news just about every day.
• Cybersecurity is about defending against these threats. The field has steadily grown in breadth, depth and societal importance and is now recognized as a stand-alone subject alongside Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

Small Class Sizes

• Each limited-enrolment incoming class will have a small cohort. Cybersecurity students will take many of their classes together each year as a cohort. You’ll get to know your classmates well and your professors (security experts) will get to know you too.

Work Experience

• The Bachelor of Cybersecurity (BCyber) has a rigorous, fast-paced first year that will quickly prepare you for a Co-op work-term placement. By the end of your first year, you will already have developed the skills necessary for employment. By the end of your second year, you will have completed most of the general Computer Science courses employers want. If you are taking the Co-op option for the degree, you may be able to do a work term immediately following your first year. If you do your first work term at the usual time, following your second year, you will be exceptionally qualified.

Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.

• A degree in Cybersecurity will prepare you for a career in any of the numerous fields in computer science where security and/or privacy are important. Even if you decide you’d prefer a career that’s not focused on cybersecurity, you will still have a wide range of opportunities available to you since the BCyber includes almost all of the computer science content of our Bachelor of Computer Science program.

Sample Careers

• Biotechnology
• Business
• Cyber Defence Incident Responder
• Cyber Forensics Expert
• Cyber Security Specialist
• Cybersecurity Engineer
• Information Security
• Information Systems Security Manager
• Security
• Software Design
• Software Development
• Systems Security Analysis
• Vulnerability Assessment Analyst

Carleton’s new Bachelor of Cybersecurity (BCyber) is unique in Canada. It targets the computer science side of cybersecurity to help you understand the broad range of current and anticipated future threats and risks, as well as solutions to solve them.