Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity

Chart your own path as a cybersecurity professional with a Bluefield College B.S. in Cybersecurity degree. You can seize your dream of helping to protect private information for individuals and companies. From learning the basics of information security to advanced skills like tracking down hackers, you will gain the skills necessary to enter the wide-open field of cybersecurity. In Bluefield’s cybersecurity program, students learn how to integrate a Christian perspective into their work in protecting personal data.

Your coursework builds skills in programming logic, network switching and routing, server administration, and network forensics. Along with fundamental technical skills, you will learn how to think critically about data and how to protect information from hackers who are trying to take advantage of individuals and businesses. Throughout your coursework, there is a focus on ethical decision making, and the program culminates in an internship where you practice the cybersecurity skills you have learned in your courses.

With your degree, you will be able to provide leadership in the information technology field. Serving as a cybersecurity technician or manager, you can help protect vulnerable data from exploitation by creating robust security systems. The hands-on projects you complete in the program help you choose among a wide range of jobs available locally and nationally. Thousands of jobs are available in the cybersecurity field and the Bluefield College B.S. in Cybersecurity degree prepares you to work in small to large organizations.

Bluefield College is a Christ-centered learning community developing servant leaders to transform the world.

Christians identify Jesus Christ as the model servant leader. Christ shared that he came not to be served but to serve. In addition to living a life exhibited by the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, a servant leader is humble and allows his/her words and deeds to speak for themselves. Ultimately, a servant leader desires to live a life of significance and to make a difference in the lives of others.

Servant leadership is being a servant first, letting the natural feeling to serve others come first, and then through conscious choice bringing one to aspire to lead. This manifests itself in that the servant leader makes sure that other people’s highest needs are being served.