Degrees Offered:

  • Master of Science
  • Professional Masters of Network Engineering
  • Bachelor's-Accelerated Master's (BAM) &听Dual 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鈥檚 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 50听years, we've听educated students from a variety of backgrounds including听engineering, business, economics, policy and strategy, and the legal professions听who thrive on this intense and rapidly-changing technology environment.听

Today鈥檚 employers seek to hire highly-skilled professionals听and managers who are effective听communicators and decision makers with knowledge of the complex听interdisciplinary environment that characterizes modern information networks.听This is a field that is no longer a matter of technology alone; the information听technology sector is providing rewarding careers for those with interdisciplinary听skills in an exciting, rapidly changing, innovative marketplace.

The Boulder-Denver area is home to a large number of high-tech companies听dedicated to networking and the Internet, which offer internship opportunities听for students. Boulder is one of the top cities in the country for start-ups, and听the area hosts several national labs.

The TCP provides a unique research environment that focuses on the application of both qualitative and听quantitative research methodologies applied to interdisciplinary problems in听blockchain technologies, cyber-physical systems security, network, and wireless engineering, and security and policy听of national and global scale. TCP's research unlocks innovative solutions to听pressing technology, economic and policy issues in the听telecom, information and communications technology areas. For example, we've identified听low-cost broadband solutions for underserved areas throughout听the world, new strategies for spectrum management, or how to make the internet operate听more efficiently and securely.

The Spring 2018听graduates of TCP听enjoy the good fortune to be very sought听after in the industry. One hundred percent (100%) of graduates received full-time job听offers within six听months鈥� 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 telecom听graduate鈥檚 previous years of work experience. Median annual salaries of TCP听graduates was听$91,000 in 2018.

Visit the TCP site for听more data on TCP graduate employment outcomes.