Bachelor of Cyber Security (Professional)

Career

As a graduate of the Bachelor of Cyber Security (Professional), you will be well-equipped to pursue a wide range of ICT roles across industries and move into leadership roles.

This degree prepares you for a career in providing, supporting, analysing, troubleshooting and designing cyber security solutions. From websites to business applications to programming networks and beyond, your work and expertise will be highly sought after is applicable to by a range of organisations — spanning private businesses, government departments, schools, healthcare, and a multitude of transdisciplinary sectors.

Graduates will have the skills and knowledge to pursue roles including:

Cyber Security Advice and Assessment

Cyber Threat Analyst

Incident Responder

Intrusion Analyst

Malware Analyst

Operations Coordinator

Penetration Tester

Vulnerability Assessor

Vulnerability Researcher

Growth in this field is strong. Labour Market Insights predicts that demand for Database and Systems Administrators and ICT Security workers will increase by 38.9% to 2026. They also estimate that in 2021, salaries for these roles averaged more than $120,000 per year.

Entry requirements

To study this course you will need to complete one of the following English proficiency tests:

IELTS (Academic): minimum overall band of 6.5 (with no individual band below 6.0)

TOEFL (Internet Based Test - IBT): minimum overall score of 79 (with minimum of 13 in Reading, 12 in Listening, 18 in Speaking and 21 in Writing)

Pearson Test of English (Academic) (PTE (A)): minimum score of 58 (with no communication band less than 50)

Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): minimum of 176 with no less than 169 in any component.