Friday, June 21, 2019



What are the best colleges to study masters in Cyber Security in Europe? This question is often asked by many CS enthusiasts in many fb groups, study portals, Quora etc.., I myself failed to find answers by mere searching in internet. Most articles blog posts available till date highlight only colleges from USA or UK.

I am going to give the list of colleges straight away. This may not be the whole list of colleges but covers most of them. I am here listing only colleges that offer courses focused entirely on Cyber Security taught in English language and have global reputation.

Denmark

Technical University of Denmark
IT university of Copenhagen

Estonia

Tallin University

Finland

University of Turku
Aalto University

France

Eurecom
Rennes University

Germany

Saarland University
Ruhr University Bochum
University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich (Restricted to Civilians)
Hochschule Offenburg

Hungary

Eötvös Loránd University

Ireland

University College Dublin
Dublin City University

Italy

University of Genova
University Bocconi
University of Bari Aldo Moro
University of Palermo
Ca 'Foscari University of Venice
Free University of Bozen
University of Insubria

Lithuania

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Netherlands

Eindhoven
Leiden University
Tu Delft
University of Amsterdam
University of Twente

Norway

NTNU University
University of Oslo
University of Agder

Switzerland

ETH,Zurich
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Sweden

Stockholm University
Chalmers university of Technology
Lulea University
Orebro University
Linnaeus university

Apart from these top universities there are few programs that are offered by a consortium of top universities. Students will be awarded degree from more than one university for these programs. He/She may also be able to study in more than university based on his interests. Seems to be a very good perspective for students.

SECCLO
ERASMUS MUNDUS
Eit digital school

As most of you may be aware EU students can study anywhere in these countries with subsidized price but it may vary for International students. Public universities in Germany won't charge any additional prices to International students, rather its better to say its free of cost. Anyhow students are expected to show some proof of finances to get German study visa. There are some other nations and universities that charge nominal fee to International students as well. Cost of education is less in above mentioned universities when compared to the cost of masters education in USA/UK or Australia. I would rather leave about expenditures as it is easy to find by going through college website.

Admission to students depends on multiple factors like UG marks, reputation of college in which you studied, SOP, Letter of Recommendations, programming skills. Most of these top universities expect students to have Math and Programming skills and have sufficient credits in their UG for those subjects. Proof of English language certificate is mandatory for most courses along with your educational official transcripts from your UG college/university.
Students are permitted to work for 20 hours in most of these countries to earn for their living.

My intention is to give the list of colleges so as to help the students to save lot of time searching in internet.

Do you agree with my views? What are the other colleges you recommend?

Feel free to share this with your friends who are looking for admission into colleges in Cyber Security in Europe.

Please let me know your suggestions to make this post appealing to students.