Prepare to design security architecture, lead threat defense and respond to incidents in systems that cannot stop.
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You pay one term at a time, and each term can be split.
Every organization that moved its operations online inherited a perimeter it had never had to think about, and most made that move faster than they could build a team to protect it. Security is one of the few disciplines where the shortage is structural rather than cyclical: the surface to defend grows with every system added, while the expertise to cover it takes years to build.
Much of security work is reactive: closing the ticket, patching the flaw, restoring the system. This program adds the view from above: how attacks are built and analyzed, how secure software is developed, and how a security strategy is planned and implemented across networks, cloud and AI systems. That is the difference between defending a system and deciding how an organization should be defended.
Few fields depend on trust as much as security: organizations give their security teams access to everything they own. Before granting that access, they look for verifiable proof of expertise. An American master’s degree, with letter grades and a full transcript, is that proof, and it reads the same in every country where you might work.
Security architect, security operations lead, incident response manager, and governance, risk, and compliance lead.
AGTU (American Global Tech University) is licensed by the Florida Department of Education, Commission for Independent Education, and accredited by ASIC in the United Kingdom. Your completion documents read the same whether you studied from Lima or from Lagos.
A through F, not pass/fail. Moving faster does not mean being assessed more loosely: assessments are proctored, and projects are graded against published rubrics. What changes is the pace, not the standard.
The Intensive pace takes about six months; the Standard pace, about nine. You are not charged more for taking longer or less for finishing sooner: the price is fixed for the whole program, so the calendar stops being a financial decision and becomes your own again.
Start any day, with no intake dates. Finish in about 6, 9, or 12 months for the same total price, paid as a first payment plus 18 monthly payments. Students in more than 21 countries are already enrolled.
The Free Competency Program gives you the first two courses of the degree at no cost, with a tutor and a certificate you keep. If you continue, they count toward your degree and the $48 enrollment fee is waived.
Every course in the Master in Cybersecurity is designed and taught by the professors below: experienced professionals, most with a PhD in their field, working to the academic standards set by our Provost.
The same faculty members teach in every country, whatever you pay.
Tuition, fees, and materials are in the price for your country. The only other charge is the $48 enrollment fee, and it is waived when you start through the free competency.
Each term ends with an assessment. At the Intensive pace, a term takes about four weeks; at the Extended pace, it takes longer. The content and the assessment are the same either way.
What you learnHow the pieces of a modern technology stack fit together, from systems and code to infrastructure, and where the seams are.
What it gives youYou stop depending on someone else to tell you what is technically possible.
edX courseCS50's Introduction to Programming with Python (HarvardX)
What you learnHow data actually moves and where it is stored, from the protocol up to the storage layer.
What it gives youAlmost every breach happens on a network. You cannot defend what you cannot draw.
edX courseNetworking and Storage Essentials (IBM)
What you learnHow the pieces of a modern technology stack fit together, from systems and code to infrastructure, and where the seams are.
What it gives youYou stop depending on someone else to tell you what is technically possible.
edX courseCS50's Introduction to Programming with Python (HarvardX)
What you learnHow data actually moves and where it is stored, from the protocol up to the storage layer.
What it gives youAlmost every breach happens on a network. You cannot defend what you cannot draw.
edX courseNetworking and Storage Essentials (IBM)
What you learnHow to turn a security strategy into a plan with deadlines, owners and outcomes that can be measured.
What it gives youSecurity budgets are approved for plans, not for warnings.
edX courseProject Management Principles (University System of Maryland)
What you learnHow a company reorganizes itself around data, and what that reorganization opens up.
What it gives youYou can argue for security as part of the transformation, instead of the obstacle to it.
edX courseIntroduction to Transforming with Data Analytics and the Digital Organization (University of Maryland); Data Analytics Basics for Everyone (IBM)
What you learnHow to turn a security strategy into a plan with deadlines, owners and outcomes that can be measured.
What it gives youSecurity budgets are approved for plans, not for warnings.
edX courseProject Management Principles (University System of Maryland)
What you learnHow a company reorganizes itself around data, and what that reorganization opens up.
What it gives youYou can argue for security as part of the transformation, instead of the obstacle to it.
edX courseIntroduction to Transforming with Data Analytics and the Digital Organization (University of Maryland); Data Analytics Basics for Everyone (IBM)
What you learnThe foundations: threats, cryptography, authentication and how attacks are actually carried out.
What it gives youIt is the vocabulary the rest of the degree is built on, and the one the board expects you to have.
edX courseCS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity (HarvardX)
What you learnHow cloud infrastructure is built, configured and exposed, and where the shared responsibility line falls.
What it gives youMost of what you will be asked to protect no longer sits in a building you can visit.
edX courseIntroduction to Cloud Computing (IBM)
What you learnThe foundations: threats, cryptography, authentication and how attacks are actually carried out.
What it gives youIt is the vocabulary the rest of the degree is built on, and the one the board expects you to have.
edX courseCS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity (HarvardX)
What you learnHow cloud infrastructure is built, configured and exposed, and where the shared responsibility line falls.
What it gives youMost of what you will be asked to protect no longer sits in a building you can visit.
edX courseIntroduction to Cloud Computing (IBM)
What you learnHow data pipelines and platforms are engineered, and where they leak.
What it gives youThe data platform is where the value is concentrated, and so is the risk.
edX courseData Engineering Basics for Everyone (IBM)
What you learnWhat AI actually does, what it cannot do, and where it fits inside a business.
What it gives youYou become the person who separates what is real from what is being sold.
edX courseCS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python (HarvardX)
What you learnHow data pipelines and platforms are engineered, and where they leak.
What it gives youThe data platform is where the value is concentrated, and so is the risk.
edX courseData Engineering Basics for Everyone (IBM)
What you learnWhat AI actually does, what it cannot do, and where it fits inside a business.
What it gives youYou become the person who separates what is real from what is being sold.
edX courseCS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python (HarvardX)
What you learnHow attacks are built and executed: tooling, operating systems, networks, databases and defense architecture.
What it gives youYou cannot design a defense against a threat you have only read about.
edX courseCybersecurity Basics: Tools and Cyberattacks (IBM); Cyber Defense Architecture (IBM)
What you learnCompliance frameworks, penetration testing, threat hunting, incident response and investigation.
What it gives youThis is the work itself: what a security team does on the day something goes wrong.
edX courseCybersecurity Compliance and Framework (IBM); Mastering Generative AI for Cybersecurity (IBM)
What you learnHow attacks are built and executed: tooling, operating systems, networks, databases and defense architecture.
What it gives youYou cannot design a defense against a threat you have only read about.
edX courseCybersecurity Basics: Tools and Cyberattacks (IBM); Cyber Defense Architecture (IBM)
What you learnCompliance frameworks, penetration testing, threat hunting, incident response and investigation.
What it gives youThis is the work itself: what a security team does on the day something goes wrong.
edX courseCybersecurity Compliance and Framework (IBM); Mastering Generative AI for Cybersecurity (IBM)
What you learnAdvanced defense: hardening, monitoring and the decisions that come after the basics are in place.
What it gives youIt is what separates someone who follows a checklist from someone who sets one.
What you learnHow to build software that is secure by design instead of patched afterwards.
What it gives youThe cheapest vulnerability to fix is the one that never shipped.
What you learnAdvanced defense: hardening, monitoring and the decisions that come after the basics are in place.
What it gives youIt is what separates someone who follows a checklist from someone who sets one.
What you learnHow to build software that is secure by design instead of patched afterwards.
What it gives youThe cheapest vulnerability to fix is the one that never shipped.
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Your AGTU master’s program includes complementary content from the edX course catalog, a platform founded by Harvard and MIT, to broaden your learning experience.
More than 2,000 courses are available in the edX catalog. Thirteen of them are built into the subjects of the Master in Cybersecurity, each with its own certificate.
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University of Maryland| Subject | edX course | Certificate issued by |
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| MIT-501Advanced Information Technology | CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python | HarvardX |
| MIT-504Advanced Computer Networks | Networking and Storage Essentials | IBM |
| MIT-502Advanced Project Management | Project Management Principles | University System of Maryland |
| MIT-523Digital Organization | Introduction to Transforming with Data Analytics and the Digital OrganizationData Analytics Basics for Everyone | University of MarylandIBM |
| MIT-513Cybersecurity | CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity | HarvardX |
| MIT-505Advanced Cloud Computing | Introduction to Cloud Computing | IBM |
| MIT-508Data Platform Engineering | Data Engineering Basics for Everyone | IBM |
| MIT-500Artificial Intelligence | CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python | HarvardX |
| MIT-514Cyberattacks | Cybersecurity Basics: Tools and CyberattacksCyber Defense Architecture | IBMIBM |
| MIT-515Cyber Analysis | Cybersecurity Compliance and FrameworkMastering Generative AI for Cybersecurity | IBMIBM |
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Every course is graded on a 4.0 scale, not pass/fail. The minimum passing grade is C-.
Each of the six terms ends with a proctored assessment.
You see the grading criteria before you submit your work.
Doctoral and master’s degrees, listed with their institutions in the catalog.
An in-person immersion in the United States: lectures on campus, visits to companies, and time with faculty and classmates from other countries, where what you study online meets practice.
The AGTU Experience Orlando 2026.
Two AGTU master’s students talk about the program and the week they spent in Orlando with classmates from other countries.
Recorded in Portuguese, with English subtitles.
There are no intake dates and no cohort to wait for. You start the week you decide.
Master the modules and the next term opens. There is no cap, and no minimum either. You pay one term at a time, and each term can be split into installments.
The Intensive pace takes about six months; the Standard pace, about nine. The price is the same.
What you need to enroll: a bachelor’s degree. You can start the Free Competency Program before sending any documents, and an advisor tells you which academic documents your country requires.
Every term is the same price, whichever route you take.
Start today, study this week.
Your country sets your scholarship from the first term.
Each term is designed for six weeks and closes with an assessment. Master the modules sooner and the next term opens sooner. There is no cap, and no minimum either.Each term is designed for six weeks. Master the modules sooner and the next term opens sooner — no cap, and no minimum either.
| Pace | Months to graduate | Total study time | You’d graduate around |
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| Extended | 12 months | 52 weeks | — |
| Standard | 9 months | 39 weeks | — |
| Intensive | 6 months | 26 weeks | — |
Six weeks is the design, not the ceiling: once you have mastered a term’s modules you move on. There is no credit cap, and no minimum pace either. You are not charged more for taking longer, or less for finishing sooner. The calendar stops being a financial decision and goes back to being yours.Six weeks is the design, not the ceiling. The price is the same at any pace — the calendar stops being a financial decision and goes back to being yours.
Every admitted student receives an automatic scholarship based on where they live, up to 81% off, set by your country of residence. No essay, no committee, no waiting list.
a month, before your scholarship
— total for the program, paid as a first payment, then 18 monthly payments, with tuition, fees and materials included
Choose your country to see your scholarship. Every admitted student receives one.
The price is fixed for the whole program: the pace changes the calendar, never the total. Your price is set by your country of residence.
Move at your own speed, start at no cost, or let your country set your tuition. They can be combined, and most students use all three.
Start a full competency at no cost and earn a certificate that is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.
ExploreYour country sets your tuition, with up to 81% off applied automatically upon admission.
ExploreNo fixed semesters and no speed limits: finish in as few as six months and pay term by term.
Start nowStudents from more than 21 countries are pursuing the same program as you. Every AGTU student joins an active professional network: people in your field, in your time zone, and often in your country. You can see who they are before you enroll, connect with them on LinkedIn, and ask them anything you would rather not ask an advisor.
Students from more than 21 countries are pursuing the same program as you.
Every AGTU student joins an active professional network: people in your field, in your time zone, and often in your country. You can see who they are before you enroll, connect with them on LinkedIn, and ask them anything you would rather not ask an advisor.
Many of them started exactly where you are now: on this page, wondering whether a master’s degree could really fit their schedule.
Class of 2026More than 21 countries, one community.
There are no artificial speed limits. Many motivated learners finish in half the traditional time.
Each term unlocks when you complete your required modules and settle the term fee.
Yes. Flexible payment plans are available for each term.
Yes. Your diploma and official transcripts are issued as soon as your balance is paid in full.
Yes: letter grades from A to F, with a full GPA.
Any day. There are no intake dates.
No. The program is delivered entirely online, so there is no visa, no relocation, and no resignation letter. You study from where you already live, around the job you already have, and the credential you receive is the same American degree.
You can. There is no minimum pace.
No. The program is 100% online with recorded lectures, so you study on your own schedule from any time zone. Your tutor and the student forum support you between assessments.
No. It’s applied automatically when you’re admitted, based on your country of residence.
No. The scholarship is based on your country’s economic data, not on your personal finances.
Yes, every term until you graduate.
Not for the free competency program. Formal admission requirements, including academic documentation, apply when you enroll in a degree program.
Four fields, and your price is set. Prefer to ask first? An advisor answers by email or WhatsApp within one business day.
Start any day. Pay one term at a time. Finish when you’re ready.
Four fields, and your first two subjects open.
Start any day. Pay one term at a time, and split any term into installments.
Term fees, installment plans and credential release follow AGTU’s policies as published in the university catalog: official diplomas and transcripts are issued once your account is fully settled. American Global Tech University is licensed by the Florida Department of Education, Commission for Independent Education (License #12506) and accredited by ASIC. Coursework from leading universities and companies, delivered through our edX partnership.
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The people who did it, telling their own stories.
Short videos recorded by AGTU students and graduates: why they started, what a typical study week was really like, and what changed at work afterward.
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