The Cybersecurity Engineer from Universidad de Las Américas is a competent and entrepreneurial professional with a global-international vision that will render him capable of both applying technical and business skills to become a trusted advisor to upper management, anticipating cybersecurity challenges, and developing future-focused solutions aligned with business goals. All under a vision of excellence and social commitment.
Graduates will be equipped to identify, analyze, design, implement and evaluate solutions to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of information and the security of information systems that support modern organizations. Graduates will be able to identify, assess risk, present proposals, and defend against several modern-day threats by designing cybersecurity controls to protect information assets in companies using best practices, methodologies, and standards of cybersecurity and computer science. They will also be able to investigate data breaches, and cyber-attacks and build robust cybersecurity systems and long-term strategies to meet organizational objectives through good management and governance practices in the adoption of new technological trends.
The Cybersecurity Engineer is expected to lead diverse multidisciplinary work teams in national and international contexts applying resiliently technical expertise and comprehensive training and conduct himself in an ethical, creative, proactive, and responsible manner, always respecting all legal frameworks while being committed to the country’s cybersecurity development process for the benefit of society.
Demographic Data: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly and a breakdown by men and women. Enrollment by ethnicity presents data on the most representative ethnic groups of the program.
Student Completion:
Retention and graduation rates are calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students. Retention rates are calculated in 1 and 2 years.
Graduation rates are calculated according to each program’s duration length (100%) and within 150% of the normal time for a bachelor’s degree. The percentage of graduates in each cohort by gender considers only actual graduates, not the original makeup of the cohort.
Scholarship information: Information is divided by the type of scholarship granted.
Geographic Data: Presents the composition of the students of the program.
Add'l. Demogr. Data: Includes information on marital status, disability, and first-generation students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.