Cybersecurity and Public Policy

The Cybersecurity and Public Policy master's program prepares students to help organizations protect their data, identify and manage cyber risk, and recover from cyber-attacks.

Program Highlights

The program embraces an interdisciplinary approach, teaching and producing research through a variety of lenses. Students are not offered nor recommend a single track to graduation‚ instead, they will be encouraged to pursue their own interests and meet their professional goals. To name just a few potential focus areas, students could:

• Explore algorithms and technologies for securing systems
• Study how users interact with computers in order to provide stronger methods of privacy protection
• Examine digital approaches to development
• Ask how to control—through laws and technology—the growing surveillance society
• Analyze the impact that the “borderless” world of the Internet has on sovereignty
• Research how changing communications technologies impact law, among many other potential focus areas

Students benefit from select courses offered by the following Tufts schools and departments:

• The Fletcher School
• Department of Computer Science
• International Relations Program
• Department of Political Science

Program Outcomes

Set yourself apart among cybersecurity professionals with the unique, interdisciplinary Master's of Science in Cybersecurity and Public Policy program. Program graduates enter the workforce with a valuable and sought-after combination of technical skills, global perspective, and policy understanding that employers demand.

Working closely with faculty mentors, students explore numerous avenues to become cybersecurity policy experts and benefit from the technical expertise of the School of Engineering and the global context of The Fletcher School. Students are empowered to pursue their own interests to meet their professional goals.