Engineering–Concentration in Security, PhD

The Department of Computer Science supports the PhD in Engineering program with a concentration in security. Students who are interested in research areas with an emphasis in security, and would like to pursue the PhD in Engineering degree should view the program guidelines.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at UCCS offers a new Security specialty in the Ph.D. in Engineering degree program, starting in Fall 2018. The nation-wide unique specialty offers the security curriculum for students to study and conduct multi-disciplinary research in areas of cyber security, physical security, and homeland security, which have become critical and increasingly urgent in today’s personal, business, and government operations. This new multi-disciplinary concentration integrates the existing curriculum and research initiatives, and meets the grand challenges of security with the quality expected from the University of Colorado