Cyber security field?

[Ynotgo]

For the offensive side, many of the skills are self-taught or learned from peers, so the universities in the following lists perhaps don’t have many related classes other than cryptography and network-related classes.

Here’s the recent CSAW CTF finalist list. https://ctf.csaw.io/ (Scroll way down for North America.)

2016 CSAW finalist press release: http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-releases/2016/10/05/worlds-best-student-hackers-advance-final-rounds-nyu-csaw

2016 CSAW winner press release: http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-releases/2016/11/14/worlds-largest-student-cyber-security-contest-names-winners

[SoofDad]

Just a follow-up.

The University of Maryland has partnered with the MITRE Corporation to establish a National Cybersecurity Center of Excellance at NIST

https://nccoe.nist.gov/sites/default/files/library/fact-sheets/nccoe-fact-sheet.pdf

[PengsPhils]

There are many schools with Cyber Security degrees surprizingly they are usually not part of the computer science department. They are mostly part of the business school.

I would not recommend cybersecurity degrees not housed in engineering/CS/technical skills.

In the past week, Northeastern actually launched a cybersecurity major. Most of the classes already existed - it’s basically a concentrated CS major with relevant non-major courses.

http://catalog.northeastern.edu/undergraduate/computer-information-science/computer-science/cyber-security-bs/#programrequirementstext