Degrees Offered:

  • Master of Science
  • Professional Masters of Network Engineering
  • Bachelor's-Accelerated Master's (BAM) &ÌýDual MS Degrees

The Technology, Cybersecurity, and Policy (TCP) program is a highly-integrated and comprehensive graduate program combining technology, policy, and business with hands-on experience, which capitalizes on our cutting-edge security, telecom, and wireless labs. Expand your career by mastering the latest internet technologies, essential business skills, and policy knowledge to achieve success in today’s rapidly changing high-tech world.

TCP is developing the future leaders who will combat the latest cyber threats, engineer and grow the infrastructure behind cloud computing and networks, influence policies from privacy to the expansion of broadband, and create the next generation of technological innovations through the installment of entrepreneurship in every student.

We are developing leaders today for the technology of tomorrow. For nearly 50Ìýyears, we'veÌýeducated students from a variety of backgrounds includingÌýengineering, business, economics, policy and strategy, and the legal professionsÌýwho thrive on this intense and rapidly-changing technology environment.Ìý

Today’s employers seek to hire highly-skilled professionalsÌýand managers who are effectiveÌýcommunicators and decision makers with knowledge of the complexÌýinterdisciplinary environment that characterizes modern information networks.ÌýThis is a field that is no longer a matter of technology alone; the informationÌýtechnology sector is providing rewarding careers for those with interdisciplinaryÌýskills in an exciting, rapidly changing, innovative marketplace.

The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-Denver area is home to a large number of high-tech companiesÌýdedicated to networking and the Internet, which offer internship opportunitiesÌýfor students. ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is one of the top cities in the country for start-ups, andÌýthe area hosts several national labs.

The TCP provides a unique research environment that focuses on the application of both qualitative andÌýquantitative research methodologies applied to interdisciplinary problems inÌýblockchain technologies, cyber-physical systems security, network, and wireless engineering, and security and policyÌýof national and global scale. TCP's research unlocks innovative solutions toÌýpressing technology, economic and policy issues in theÌýtelecom, information and communications technology areas. For example, we've identifiedÌýlow-cost broadband solutions for underserved areas throughoutÌýthe world, new strategies for spectrum management, or how to make the internet operateÌýmore efficiently and securely.

The Spring 2018Ìýgraduates of TCPÌýenjoy the good fortune to be very soughtÌýafter in the industry. One hundred percent (100%) of graduates received full-time jobÌýoffers within sixÌýmonths’ post-graduation!

A sample of employers:

  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • Arista
  • CableLabs
  • Charter
  • Cisco
  • Google
  • Juniper
  • Level 3 Communications
  • LogRhythm
  • Microsoft
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Verizon

Employment of computer network, systems, and database administrators is expected to grow much faster than average, with an increase of 30 percent by 2018. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Salary will vary depending on the size of a company, location and the telecomÌýgraduate’s previous years of work experience. Median annual salaries of TCPÌýgraduates wasÌý$91,000 in 2018.

Visit the TCP site forÌýmore data on TCP graduate employment outcomes.