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CybersecurityDegrees

University of Phoenix

Phoenix, AZPrivate for-profit HLC

University of Phoenix offers an online Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity, built from five-week courses aligned to EC-Council certification exams, and an online 39-credit Master of Science in Cybersecurity taken one six-week course at a time.

Verified cybersecurity degrees

2 programs verified so far (1 bachelor's, 1 master's). The school may offer more cybersecurity programs than we have verified; certificates and associate degrees are not listed.

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity

Bachelor'sBSDedicated degreeBachelor of Science
Format: Online
Location: Phoenix, AZSchool location, not a residency requirement
Attendance: Online attendance requirements not verified
Duration: approximately 47 months with no prior college credits (no prior college credits) · 120 credits
Tuition: $398 per credit · All students — Undergraduate cost per credit
Next deadline: No upcoming verified deadline
Accreditation and designation: No ABET or CAE record found
Specializations: Cyber Defense · Digital Forensics
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University of Phoenix

Master of Science in Cybersecurity

Master'sMSDedicated degreeMaster of Science
Format: Online · Asynchronous
Location: Phoenix, AZSchool location, not a residency requirement
Attendance: Online attendance requirements not verified
Duration: as little as 18 months (one 6-week course at a time) · 39 credits
Tuition: $698 per credit · All students — Master's cost per credit
Next deadline: No upcoming verified deadline
Accreditation and designation: No ABET or CAE record found
Specializations: Cloud Security
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Accreditation

  • Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

    Institutional accreditation — accredited · since January 1, 1978 · next review 08/31/2033

    Recognized by: U.S. Department of Education

    Source: ope.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026

ABET program accreditation

None of this school's listed cybersecurity programs appears in ABET's accredited-program database. ABET accreditation is optional and program-specific; its absence does not make a program ineligible here.

Institutional accreditation covers the institution. It does not mean every program is ABET-accredited — ABET accredits individual programs, and we show it only for the program ABET lists.

NSA Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE)

CAE designations are awarded by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity program (NSA, with CISA and partners) to an institution and its validated program of study. A designation is not accreditation and does not apply automatically to every degree.

This school does not appear in the official NCAE-C directory as of our last check. Many strong programs are not CAE-designated; it is not an eligibility requirement here.

Online student services

Services the university publishes for online students. Availability can depend on program and enrollment status.

Online student services: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Offerings we reviewed but do not list

This directory lists cybersecurity bachelor's, master's and PhD programs. These offerings were checked against official pages and fall outside that scope (certificates, associate degrees, electives-only degrees…).
  • Associate Degree in CybersecurityAssociate degree.Source: phoenix.edu · verified October 11, 2026
  • Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with Cyber and Network Defense Certificate (Bachelor of Science)Cybersecurity content is an optional certificate taken as electives, not a formal concentration.Source: phoenix.edu · verified October 11, 2026
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Advanced Cybersecurity or Cyber & Network Defense certificate (Bachelor of Science)Cybersecurity certificates are optional electives within the CS degree, not a formal concentration.Source: phoenix.edu · verified October 11, 2026

Institution

Official name
University of Phoenix
Control
Private for-profit
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Main location
4035 South Riverpoint Parkway, Phoenix, AZ 85040
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Students enrolled exclusively in distance education
100,978 of 101,150 students (Fall 2023)
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026

Sources

Last verified October 11, 2026. Program facts and their sources are on each program page.
  1. NCAE-C institution directory (National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity) — Source, verified October 11, 2026
  2. IPEDS 2024–25 Institutional Characteristics (HD2024), via College Navigator — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  3. IPEDS Fall 2023 enrollment by distance-education status (EF2023A_DIST) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  4. DAPIP — HLC institutional accreditation record (data files downloaded 2026-10-10) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  5. phoenix.edu/online-information-technology-degrees/bachelors.html — Official program page, verified October 11, 2026
  6. phoenix.edu/online-information-technology-degrees/computer-science-bachelors-degree.html — Official program page, verified October 11, 2026
  7. phoenix.edu/online-information-technology-degrees/cybersecurity-bachelors-degree.html — Official program page, verified October 11, 2026
  8. phoenix.edu/online-information-technology-degrees/information-technology-bachelors-degree.html — Official program page, verified October 11, 2026

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