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Online Graduate Programs

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

#1

in Flexibility

(OnlineMasters.com)

#11

Master’s Program

(OnlineMasters.com)

TOP 20

Most Innovative Law School

(PreLaw Magazine)

$248 Billion

Projected Cybersecurity Compliance Market by 2023

(MarketsandMarkets™)

$120 Billion

Estimated Data Protection Market by 2023

(MarketsandMarkets™)

The Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Programs are designed to provide cybersecurity professionals with the skills and knowledge to navigate a rapidly changing legal, regulatory, and policy landscape. We offer a rigorous curriculum taught by faculty who are thought leaders in the fields of information security, data privacy, cybercrime, intellectual property law, and more.

  • The global cybersecurity industry is projected to more than double between 2021 and 2028, according to Grand View Research.
  • Graduates of the program are well-equipped to unlock their earning potential in the expanding, lucrative field of cybersecurity and data privacy.

    Master’s Degree (100% online)

    • Bachelor’s degree required
    • Complete in a little over a year
    • Dual degree options available

    LL.M. Degree (100% online)

    • J.D. or LL.B. required
    • Complete in one year
    • Dual degree options available

    Advanced Certificate in Cybersecurity and Data Privacy (100% online)

    • Bachelor’s Degree required
    • Complete in as little as 3 months

    You work when you can. The courses are organized well and allow you to control your own schedule. It provided great value for me and my firm.

    - Jacqueline Goralczyk LL.M.


    Requirements

    The Master’s degree requires 30 credits, the LL.M. 24 credits, and the Certificate program 9 credits. To earn a concentration at least 18 credits must be completed from courses within the concentration. The Master’s and LL.M. require a Thesis course and the Master’s requires Introduction to Law and Legal Methods. That leaves room for either completing additional courses within the concentration or taking some electives. The programs are built for flexibility.

    Sample of Elective courses (email graduateadmissions@albanylaw.edu for more information)

    The Albany Law program helped me get this job (as a privacy professional). It has expanded my knowledge of privacy, and the company wanted someone with that expertise to kick-start their privacy practice.

    - Rey Leclerc Sveinsson, LL.M. student