Dec 19, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Cybersecurity Management, Data Analytics Concentration, B.S.


Information Systems and Analytics  
Tim Greer, program coordinator
Tim.Greer@mtsu.edu
615-904-8176

A major in Cybersecurity Management with a Data Analytics Concentration consists of 61 hours of information systems and cybersecurity management courses. Majors must earn an overall minimum GPA of 2.00.

This concentration will introduce students to critical roles in cybersecurity by focusing on the intersection of data analytics and security practices and to core principles of data analytics, focusing on areas like statistical methods, anomaly detection, and data visualization.

The program below includes a required Business Administration minor.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Cybersecurity Management, Data Analytics Concentration, B.S. Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core 41 hours
Major Requirements 61 hours*
   Major Courses    46 hours
   Data Analytics Concentration    15 hours
Business Administration Minor 18 hours
Electives 0-3 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following course required by the program meets True Blue Core requirements:

Minor (18 hours)


The Business Administration Minor  is required.

Electives (0-3 hours)


Curriculum: Cybersecurity Management, Data Analytics Concentration


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Subtotal: 13 Hours