Engineering and Physical Sciences Foundation Programme: Cybersecurity

Our foundation programme paves the way to a degree programme in BSc Cyber Security at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Course outline

In our foundation programme for cybersecurity, you will gain the fundamental knowledge needed for your future undergraduate studies, paving the way toward a BSc in Cybersecurity.

On this programme, you will learn, collaborate, and flourish through a blend of academic modules, specific subject knowledge, and project-based learning with students in other digital areas and foundation students across different frameworks. This approach mimics the real-life working world, where your career will be enriched by working alongside people with different skill sets, viewpoints, and approaches, while also supporting a wider community of learning and building the specific skills for your progression.

Key benefits

• Supporting progression – Opportunity to progress onto an Aston University degree programme by learning fundamental subject knowledge.

• Gold standard teaching – Aston University was awarded Gold – the highest possible rating for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2023)

Where can this degree take me?

Successful completion of this foundation programme enables progression onto our full-time BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity degree course.

The transferable skills that our computer science programmes provide mean that our graduates are successful in finding employment in a wide range of roles such as:

• Software engineer

• Cloud engineer

• DevOps engineer

• Security analyst

• Technical consultant

• Web developer

• Business analyst

• Graduate data engineer

Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Microsoft, IBM UK Ltd, Barclays Bank, BAE Systems, Amazon, Deloitte, Vodafone, and Sony.