Internet of Things Engineering
MSc
Postgraduate
September 2025
Overview
Cybersecurity has become a critical component of every aspect of modern life, from protecting personal information to safeguarding national security.
There is a heightened demand for graduates with interdisciplinary skills and capabilities, from backgrounds like social sciences, psychology, economics, and information science to meet this growing demand.
According to a government report: “Cyber skills are in huge demand across the UK economy. In 2022, cyber security skills in the UK labour market report found that 51% of businesses have a basic cyber skills gap, with an average of 21,600 new recruits needed every year to meet demand in the cyber sector.”
The course offers a valuable opportunity to enhance your cyber awareness skills and cultivate interdisciplinary and technical proficiencies, enabling you to effectively counteract cyber-attacks. You’ll learn how to proactively detect, mitigate, and fortify defences to ensure compliance with cybersecurity regulations.
You’ll develop your learning on current cybersecurity practices, cryptographic techniques, political security, artificial intelligence security, network security and the use of information management systems for security. The MSc Cybersecurity Technology with placement option will provide you with the opportunity to put these skills into practice, giving you the opportunity to engage in work-related experience to complement your studies.
What's more, this degree is provisionally certified by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ. The curriculum is aligned with The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge recommended by NCSC and meets industry requirements, ensuring a high quality of teaching and enhancing your career prospects
National Cyber Security Centre
Provisionally accredited by the National Cyber Security Centre
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The course has been co-designed with IT professionals in information security, politics, project managers and cybersecurity roles with decades of experience in the UK/European cybersecurity domain and global cybersecurity certification recognition. The primary goal is to offer essential knowledge and skills necessary for a successful career in Cybersecurity.
Dr Ahmad Musa, Course Director
Entry requirements
You should be a digital and numerical literate graduate with a degree (2:2 or higher) in:
- STEM subjects or near STEM subjects (examples of near STEM subjects include: Economics, Informatics, Accountancy)
- Non-STEM degree subjects: if your degree is not related to STEM, you will also need a GCSE/iGCSE Maths equivalent.
For more information on the IELTS (International English language Testing System) requirements for this course, please click here to visit our dedicated IELTS web page.
Module information
Core/optional modules
*Modules subject to approval
How you’ll learn
This MSc follows elements of the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate strategy. Key to this is the industrial relevance of the course. You will participate in active learning, working with peers collaboratively to coordinate and yield solutions to interdisciplinary group projects/projects typically sourced from industry.
The MSc will develop both technical and employability skills; interpersonal, management, leadership, emotional intelligence. The blended learning approach of lectures and workshops face-to-face and online will:
- Current industrially recognised and relevant technology.
- Receive guidance and other interaction with industrial partners – including in assessment where possible.
- Build the level of complexity scenarios of problems and yield interesting solutions over the period of the course through working on and solving where possible industry inspired/sourced problems/projects.
- Facilitates support for public, third and commercial sector enterprises, for example, improving performance, quality, and revenue streams while ensuring security.
The course will consist of online and face-to-face campus practical learning in computing laboratories and face-to-face and online theoretical learning.
The MSc will build upon the skills you developed as an undergraduate, and encourage the development of an investigating intelligence, technical and employability skills to systematically detect, mitigate and critically analyse complex cyber-attacks.
Digital Learning Environment
The online and on campus practical learning in the MSc will use open source, student licensed software, and secluded specialist forensic labs for experiments. The course will also utilise Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment to support online asynchronous and synchronous online video learning, discussion board, chats, in conjunction with digital learning tools like Mentimeter, Socrative, Kahoot, YouTube, Padlet, MS Whiteboard, MS Teams, GitHub, MS Visual Studio Live, etc.
Each 20 credits module will require:
- 40 hours scheduled timetable contact learning
- 40 hours guided self-study learning
- 120 hours self-study learning
Professional Research Methods and Project 60 credit module will require:
- 28 hours scheduled timetabled contact learning
- 572 hours self-study learning
Cybersecurity Technology Placement 0 credit:
- 10 hours pre-placement preparation scheduled contact (during trimesters 1 and 2)
- 10 hours guided independent learning (during trimesters 1 and 2)
- 40 hours independent learning (across trimesters 1 to 3)
- Placement/work-based learning (undertaken in trimester 3)
- Non-Student Route Visa Students: Minimum 240 hours, Maximum 480 hours (e.g. 20–40 hours over 12 weeks).
- Student Route Visa Students: Minimum 384 hours, Maximum 480 hours (e.g. 32-40 hours per week over 12 weeks).
How you’ll be assessed
You will be assessed by both coursework and computer-based assessments, essentially the programme is 100% coursework assessment. The coursework assessments will enable you to demonstrate the development of your key scientific and transferable skills.
The course typically consists of coursework assessments submissions of (but not exclusive): computer scientific lab, logbooks, on-line quizzes, written reports, written scientific papers, discursive essays, stand-alone video presentations, walkthroughs, digital artefacts and poster presentations and professional portfolio.
Assessment feedback will be provided through use of (but not exclusive) assessment rubric, written, audio recording, self/peer, one-to-one face-to-face, group face-to-face, tutorial, video conference, dragons den, panel interview, video, screencast, and computer-generated feedback.
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Fees
Tuition fees for this course without placement year
| UK | Overseas | |
| Full-time | £9,545 | £15,500 |
Tuition fees for this course with placement year
Placement year fee: £850
| UK | Overseas | |
| Full-time | £10,395 | £16,350 |
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Important Information on Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for all courses which last more than one academic year are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
There will be an annual inflationary increase in tuition fees for this course where the course lasts more than one academic year. For further information read the Tuition fee statements and continuing fee information.
Industry links
The course has also been mapped to cover more than 80% of the learning outcomes for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification offered by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) as an option for interested students upon graduation.
Professional Accreditation
The demand for cybersecurity professionals in the UK continues to grow due to the increasing frequency and complexity of cyber threats. Graduates with knowledge in cybersecurity are well-positioned to enter this dynamic field and contribute to the security of organisations and individuals.
Career opportunities include cybersecurity analysts or engineers, security consultants, and forensic analysts, while some cybersecurity experts choose to work independently as freelance consultants, offering their expertise to multiple clients on a project basis.