Cybercrime and Digital Investigation

Middlesex University
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 1 Year Computer scienceSociology

About this course

This Master's degree is designed to provide you with an understanding of the criminological, legal and research context of cybercrime. Furthermore, it aims to equip you with an understanding of computing skills and capabilities that will help to respond to online threats to personal information as well as to organisational environments.

This makes it the ideal postgraduate qualification for students and professionals seeking a specialist role in a community or support service environment, such as victim support services, the police force, child protection, offender services, as well as corporate environments where there is a need to prevent and respond to cybercrime and issues related to online safety.

Course highlights -You will be taught by leading experts working in the field of online safety and child protection -Learn how cyber criminals seek to take advantage of internet systems and ways of preventing these crimes from happening -Gain specialist skills and knowledge in a relevant and increasingly essential area of criminology, with many employment opportunities

Introducing our new Learning Framework After working with our students to gather feedback on what they love most about our courses, we’re making some changes to how we structure and teach our programmes for the start of the 2024/25 academic year. You can find more information about how this course is affected by viewing the relevant course information sheet on our Learning Framework page: https://www.mdx.ac.uk/study/learning-framework/

Study Options

This course is available in 2 study options:

Part-time

Duration: 2 Years

Qualification: MSc

Location: London

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: MSc

Location: London

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

5244 Computer system and equipment installers and servicers
2139 Information technology professionals
2134 Programmers and software development professionals
3131 IT operations technicians
3132 IT user support technicians
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers

Course Details

Qualification
MSc
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
1 Year
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
London
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Computer science, Sociology