Master in Cybersecurity Management
Vilnius, Lithuania
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
19 Aug 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,384 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Are you interested in the protection of the data, critical infrastructure, and information sources? Do you believe in the increasing need for effective management of data, security processes, and human resources, and the growing demand for cyber security management skills? Do you wish for a career with practically unlimited growth in the IT and security sector? Is it important to you to have a real impact in the future?
If at least one of the above questions received a positive answer, a master's degree in Cybersecurity Management is worth your consideration. Become an expert in cybersecurity area and management. Build your skills with our interdisciplinary study program, with topics of cybersecurity risk management, cybersecurity modeling, personal data protection, security economics, intellectual property, cybersecurity regulation and so much more in the program which has no analogs neither Lithuania nor the whole Baltic region (Latvia, Estonia, Poland)!
Study in Lithuania, a country with beautiful nature. Challenge yourself! Take your business studies in English and become a true international expert on cybersecurity management. To take full advantage of this course, you will be required to know English at the B2 level.
The lack of professionals in the field of cybersecurity management presupposes the jobs corresponding to the statements of the strategic plan of the European Union “The Europe 2020” regarding the innovative economy. After completing your degree, you will be able to apply your knowledge in State bodies and/or businesses that manage important electronic data, critical infrastructures, and other electronic resources (departments of public institutions' security and IT, business units, and units of the management of risks, the IT departments, etc.). You may also establish your cybersecurity consultancy or cybersecurity-related products business.
Join one of the most forward-looking study programs among all universities in Lithuania and gain an edge in the extremely competitive market. In 2 years, receive your master's degree in the field of management. You will also be awarded 90 ECTS credits for your future studies.
Get your degree in Europe, is probably the best university in Lithuania, the country which takes the 4th honorable position in the global cybersecurity ranking and where education can be affordable to everyone.
Admissions
Curriculum
STUDY PROGRAMME PLAN
| Course units | ECTS credits |
| 1st YEAR | 60 |
| 1 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Management* | 3 |
| Economic Basics* | 3 |
| Legal Environment of Cyber Security | 6 |
| Decisions of E-governance and E-Democracy | 6 |
| Security Economics | 6 |
| Fundamental Principles and Risk Management of Cybersecurity | 6 |
| Organisational Cyber Security Culture | 6 |
| 2 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Research Methodology | 6 |
| Privacy and Data Protection | 6 |
| Intellectual Property | 6 |
| Modeling of Electronic Information Security | 6 |
| Master Thesis | 6 |
| 2nd YEAR | 30 |
| 3 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Management of IT Projects | 6 |
| Master Thesis | 24 |
* – Course units are compulsory for students who have not studied it during their bachelor’s studies.
Program Outcome
General Competencies and Learning Outcomes
- Personal and Social Abilities
- Ability to organize evaluation of research and work of modern cyber security, analyze their adaptation to meet the needs of the State and society, and to the development of economic and social values, to create an interaction of modern scientific and efficient managerial environments, to plan their strategies, the use the holistic approach in making managerial decisions;
- Ability to understand how cyber security management creates a safe, competitive environment for the public and business services, and how it creates added value for business and all levels of a knowledge-based economy.
Subject-specific competencies and learning outcomes
- Knowledge and its application
- Ability to organize and manage human resources, technological platforms in the cyber security field, and make decisions in changing environments, develop and manage cyber security development projects, to the legal environment;
- Ability to apply in a socially responsible manner the managerial decisions, and analytical tools in the field of security of cyber security and to organize research in this direction, creatively using modern methods of decision-making about the legal environment;
- Ability to evaluate the strategic trends of cyber security, to align technological trends with global, public, social, and economic needs, through interdisciplinary knowledge and scientific research methodologies;
- Ability to use a holistic approach in dealing with a wide variety of cyber security threats.
- Research skills
- Ability to deal with the realities of cyber security, taking into account the increasing dynamics, potential threats, and strategic opportunities arising from tendencies of global electronic business, electronic public services, the environment of e-business, and global trends;
- Ability to work in the environment of electronic public services and e-business, in the context of heterogeneous changes, using the holistic management paradigms, methodologies, and the latest social and information technologies in the field of cyber security.
- Special Abilities
- Mastering the cyber security model making, innovation management, cost-effectiveness, the methods of development and implementation of projects and their dissemination, the combination of forms in their adaptation to the micro and macro levels, as well as the ability to strategically plan the security of electronic information (cyber security) processes in the global safe cyberspace and the knowledge-based economy;
- Ability to organize and manage human resources, and technological platforms in the cyber security field, and make decisions in changing complex environments, to develop and manage cyber security development projects;
- Ability to scientifically analyze creative solutions in the cyber security field, and evaluate development opportunities, to base and create innovative ideas and creative solutions for their implementation in electronic and information security (cyber security) field, to implement the security of electronic information (cyber security) innovative projects, to integrate new knowledge in new and unknown environments and global multicultural contexts.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
MRU seeks to ensure that all of our students receive high-quality education regardless of their financial situation, therefore, please find all the available scholarships for prospective international students listed below.
Note:
- All the listed scholarships are funded either by the Government of Lithuania or Mykolas Romeris University
- There might be additional funding from students’ countries of origin
- All EU citizens can apply for state-funded studies
- Scholarships for current international students are listed here
State scholarships for full-time master degree studies
Each year, the Education Exchanges Support Foundation opens applications for Lithuanian state scholarships for international full-time Master’s degree students accepted at Lithuanian higher education institutions.
The scholarship includes a monthly stipend and a grant covering study costs.
Career Opportunities
Cyber Security Management is a credible stakeholder level that includes the provision of a Cyber Security Management system to the public and the private sectors. Having acquired relevant competencies (decision-making, cybersecurity project management, etc.), graduates will be able to work at public sector structures and business firms.
Potential employers are public authorities or businesses that manage key electronic data (public authority security and IT departments, business institutions risk management departments, IT departments, etc.). Graduates will have an opportunity to build and run their own companies through cybersecurity services or consulting.
Graduates will successfully be able to work as data protection officers – such work positions from 2018 May 25th are mandatory under the new EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR or BDAR).
Currently, our graduates are working at international IT companies and various organizations.