Awarding Body:
Award: BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity – University of Wolverhampton
Credits: 60 ECTS – 120 CATS
Level: MQF L6 – EQF L6 – UK L6
Study Mode: Full-Time / Part-Time
Full-Time Schedule:
Start: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
End: Friday, 4th June 2027
Lectures: 2 to 3 times a week
Lecture Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Part-Time Schedule:
Start: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
End: Friday, 9th June 2028
Lectures: 2 times a week
Lecture Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Duration:
Full-Time: 1 Academic Year
Part-Time: 2 Academic Years
Future Intakes: September 2026
Assessment Method: Examinations, coursework and assignments
Delivery Method: Face to Face Lectures
Administration Fee: €150
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BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity – 3rd Year
The third year of the BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity focuses on advanced cybersecurity concepts and their application in real-world contexts, preparing students for professional practice or postgraduate study. Students will develop a deeper understanding of how to protect organisations, networks, IT systems and individuals against complex cyber threats and attacks.
This final year builds advanced knowledge of cyber threats, criminal cyber activity and information risk management, with a strong emphasis on secure system design and practical control measures that support organisational resilience. Students will engage with contemporary cybersecurity challenges and apply industry-relevant methodologies, tools and technologies.
The programme also incorporates advanced aspects of cryptography, forensic computing and ethical hacking, providing opportunities to work with specialist software and forensic approaches. Students will further develop their understanding of cybersecurity architecture and operations, using professional tools and equipment to design, implement and evaluate secure computer systems and networks.
Students who successfully complete the BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity have the opportunity to further their studies by progressions to the MSc Cyber Security or the International Master’s in Business Administration.
The entry requirements for the BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity – 3rd year of the degree are as follows:
Academic Pathway
- Higher National Diploma in Computing (HND)
- Level 5 Computing Award
English Qualifications
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS) – Overall Score of 6.0 with no component less than 5.5
- TOEFL – Overall Score of 60 with no component score less than 20
- Cambridge: Advanced English, First English – Overall score of 169 with no component scores less than 162
- Cambridge: English Proficiency (Online Verification Required) – Overall score of 169 with no component scores less than 162
Relevant work experience is considered.
Visa Requirements
All students who are not from EU/EEA countries or Switzerland will require a visa to study in Malta. For all information related to visas, please visit the Identità Malta page directly by clicking here.
Important Notice
Kindly note that students must complete a health screening within the first two weeks of arrival in Malta, ideally before the course begins. If any issues are identified during screening, the application for residency approval cannot be finalised. For further information, please refer to the following link: Foreign Students Studying in Malta | HPDP
- 6CS007: Project and Professionalism (Credits: 20 ECTS – 40 CATS)
- 6CS010: Digital Forensics (Credits: 10 ECTS – 20 CATS)
- 6CS029: Advanced Networks (Credits: 10 ECTS – 20 CATS)
- 6CS031: Cyber Threat Intelligence (Credits: 10 ECTS – 20 CATS)
- 6CS032: Risk and Cybersecurity Management (Credits: 10 ECTS – 20 CATS)
- Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of your field of study, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects of a discipline with an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge.
- Demonstrate an ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within a discipline and apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply your knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects.
- Demonstrate conceptual understanding that enables the student:
- to devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of a discipline.
- to describe and comment upon aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage your own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline) and communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution – or identify a range of solutions – to a problem.
- Demonstrate the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring:
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility.
- decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts.
the learning ability needed to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.
This course is eligible for government funding under the Students’ Maintenance Grants (Stipends) and/or the Get Qualified Scheme.
If you would like to learn more about these schemes, please click here.
On completion of the degree, learners can progress to the Master’s degree in Cyber Security or to the International Master in Business Administration. Optionally, students may also pursue the Master’s in Computer Science; this pathway is subject to review and approval by the University of Wolverhampton.
