The Georgia Institute of Technology announced Thursday it will offer a new online master’s degree in cybersecurity. Georgia Tech offers two other online master’s programs — in Computer Science and Science in Analytics.
Research shows the university’s online Computer Science program helped expand master’s degrees in the field by 8-10 percent. Dr. Raheem Beyah, a professor and executive director of the new program, hopes for similar results, given the nationwide shortage of cybersecurity talent.
“Security is a big problem,” Beyah says. “I tell my students in class, ‘Listen, we’ve all been hacked, just some of us know it and some of us [don’t], and that’s the truth. So, we absolutely need as many cybersecurity experts as possible.”
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