MS in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity
A CUNY master's taught in evening classes at a criminal-justice college, which gives it an investigative and legal orientation most computing programmes lack.
Type: Degree & academicStudentsLaw enforcement & investigatorsWorking practitioners
Offered by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
The facts
- Cost
- Not stated on the programme page we read. CUNY publishes graduate rates centrally and they differ sharply for New York residents; confirm with John Jay's graduate admissions before budgeting.Figure read 2026-09-12 from www.jjay.cuny.edu/academics/graduate-programs/graduate-programs-digital-forensics-cybersecurity/ms-digital-forensics-cybersecurity
- Prerequisites
- A bachelor's from an accredited institution with a minimum 3.0 GPA, plus a computer science background: two programming courses, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, statistics and discrete mathematics. Two letters of recommendation, a personal statement, transcripts and a résumé. The GRE is advised but not required for certain applicants.
- Format
- On campus in Manhattan, with evening classes Monday to Thursday.
- Length
- Not stated on the page we read.
- Renewal
- No renewal or recertification requirement is published for this entry.
- Accreditation
- A CUNY institution with institutional accreditation. No programme-specific federal designation appeared on the page we read.
- Who it suits
- A New York-based investigator, analyst or prosecutor's technical staffer with a computing background who wants a legally literate master's while working.
- Audience
- Students · Law enforcement & investigators · Working practitioners
Strengths
- Housed in a criminal justice college, so the investigative, evidentiary and legal framing is native rather than bolted on — directly relevant if you will testify.
- Evening classes Monday to Thursday are designed around people who work during the day.
- CUNY resident tuition is among the lowest in US public higher education, which is worth confirming for your own residency.
- Manhattan location puts it next to the law firms, prosecutors and financial institutions that hire this work.
Limitations
- A demanding computing prerequisite list — seven named subject areas — which rules out most career changers without substantial remedial study.
- Tuition, credit hours and duration were not on the programme page.
- On-campus only, so it is a New York programme in practice.
- No programme-level federal cybersecurity designation stated.
Sources
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