Large numbers of US colleges have added undergraduate cybersecurity majors, cybersecurity concentrations to other majors, and master’s degree programs in cybersecurity. Most colleges, however, do not know what to teach, and many are teaching students only how to admire the cybersecurity problem, but not how to fix it. Further, computer science graduates don’t learn secure coding or other technical cybersecurity topics. None of the top ten undergraduate computer science and engineering programs at American universities (as ranked by the U.S. News & World Report) required its students to take a cybersecurity course in order to graduate.
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– www.villagevoice.com: How Cybersecurity Became 2017’s Hot New Major
Cybersecurity: the Hottest New Major In College