Earn a Master’s in Threat Intelligence
Launch your career in global security
GRADUATE PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Learn advanced strategies to detect, deter, and prevent cyber, financial, and strategic threats.
- Complete your degree in 12 or 16 months.
- Study with faculty who are active practitioners and leading experts in the field, including former intelligence officers, cybersecurity specialists, and globally recognized academic researchers.
- Prepare for exciting careers at organizations like the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), INTERPOL, the FBI, Pinkerton, Ciphertrace, KPMG, Google, META, and HSBC.
- Expand your career opportunities through this STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) designated master’s program.
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Global Security Studies
Our MA in Threat Intelligence gives you the latest knowledge and tools to effectively address cybercrime and espionage, sanctions evasion, extremism, money laundering, corruption, and financial crimes.
This two-semester plus practicum OR three-semester, 36-credit master’s degree covers the full spectrum of contemporary threats, while also emphasizing specific skills, with significant real-world opportunities for you to apply your learning.
You’ll be prepared to work in relevant federal, state, and local government entities, private sector intelligence, consulting, banking, tech, and intergovernmental organizations.
Cyber, Financial, and Strategic Threats
Core coursework gives you foundations in intelligence, warfare, data, and policy analysis.
Tailor the program around your interests: focus your coursework on WMD proliferation, financial crime, and/or terrorism; complete your degree in 12 months to get back to the workforce faster or 16 months to get more professional experience through internships before you graduate; compete in national and international cybersecurity competitions.
Our partnership with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) allows you to take some courses in a military environment, gaining new perspectives on international security issues.
Why Study at the Middlebury Institute?
Advance Your Career
Your dedicated career advisor will help you clarify your career objectives, communicate your strengths, and assess your readiness.
Gain Professional Experience
Be fully immersed in this crucial field with internships and research in our centers and around the globe.
Build Intercultural Competence
Learn to effectively listen to, communicate with, and take action in communities with a range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds.