Cyber Security with Foundation Year

Foundation Year

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students

For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

Cyber Security
Are you excited by technology and problem-solving, and keen to understand how to stay one step ahead of cyber threats? Our Cyber Security degree, designed and taught by leading researchers in the field, prepares you to play a key role in protecting people, processes and technologies in a fast-growing industry. With practical experience tackling real-world challenges, you will graduate ready to defend the systems shaping our future.

Why choose this course?

• No prior experience needed, build cyber skills from day one

• Gain practical experience in both offensive (e.g., ethical hacking) and defensive (e.g., network security design) cyber security, including digital forensics

• Develop expertise in securing networks, data and users

• Use real-world scenarios, tools and simulated cyber attacks

• Enhance your career with an optional placement or international year

Our Cyber Security BSc prepares you to think like both an attacker and a defender, giving you the skills to anticipate threats, protect systems and respond effectively with confidence. 

You will build a strong foundation in programming, networks and computer systems, cybercrime, before exploring areas such as secure and usable system development, cyber security management, governance and human factors security, advanced cyber operations and threat intelligence, and digital forensics. Through real world scenarios, simulated cyber incidents and projects aligned with industry practice, you will develop the skills to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate risks, secure systems, and respond to evolving threats. It also means you will explore the social context of cyber security, including what users need, what drives costs and how solutions are evaluated.

About Keele
Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.