Business and Cybersecurity (B.S.)

Check out some of our favorite courses in the B.S. in Business and Cybersecurity program.

BUS 321 Analytics for Optimization  
Learn how to become a better decision- maker. Whether the decisions are related to manufacturing, service operations, marketing, finance, or any other function within a company, business managers rely on analysis using the tools, techniques, and concepts of management science. This course introduces ways of handling decision problems, and you will gain experience using optimization models and spreadsheets to deal with complex managerial decision problems.

BUS 480 Strategic Management and Design Thinking
Explore how to combine strategic management and design thinking to effectively manage high-performing organizations and design products. You’ll take on the role of general manager to hone your management skills in a business simulation, a product design exercise, case-based learning activities, a product design exercise, and a term project.    

ITMS 478 Cybersecurity Management   
Go deeper into management of information technology security with topics that include access control systems and methodology, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, legal issues in information system security, ethics, computer operations security, physical security, and security architecture and models using current standards and models.

Program Details

The Bachelor of Science in Business and Cybersecurity degree requires a minimum of 120 credit hours.

Business Core Required Courses (21 credit hours)

• BUS 100 Introduction to Business and Economics
• ECON 211 Introduction to Economics or ECON 151 Microeconomics
• BUS 210 Introduction to Accounting or BUS 211 Financial Accounting
• BUS 221 Business Statistics
• BUS 321 Analytics for Optimization
• BUS 351 Financial Decision Making and Capital Budgeting or ECON 423 Economics of Capital Investments
• BUS 480 Strategic Management and Design Thinking

Business and Economics Elective Courses

Choose five courses (15 credit hours) from:

• BUS 102 Business Analytics
• BUS 212 Managerial Accounting
• BUS 301 Organizational Behavior
• BUS 305 Operations and Supply Chain Analytics
• BUS 311 Strategic Cost Management
• BUS 341 Business Law
• BUS 371 Marketing Fundamentals
• ECON 152 Macroeconomics
• ECON 251 Introduction of Econometrics
• ECON 311 Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECON 312 Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECON 382 Business Economics
• You can also choose among other 400-level BUS or ECON courses for which you are qualified

Information Technology and Cybersecurity Required Courses (36 credit hours)

• ITM 301 Introduction to Contemporary Operating Systems and Hardware I
• ITM 313 Introduction to Open Source Application Development
• ITMD 321 Data Modeling and Applications
• ITMO 340 Introduction to Data Networks and the Internet
• ITMO 356 Introduction to Open Source Operating Systems
• ITMS 418 Coding Security
• ITMS 438 Cyber Forensics
• ITMS 443 Vulnerability Analysis and Control
• ITMS 448 Cyber Security Technologies
• ITMS 458 Operating System Security
• ITMS 478 Cyber Security Management
• ITMS 483 Digital Evidence

Mathematics Requirements (7 credit hours)

Natural Science and Engineering Requirements (10 credit hours)

Humanities and Social Science Requirements (21 credit hours)

Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Requirements (6 credit hours)

Free Elective Courses (four credit hours) 

Admission to all undergraduate programs at Illinois Tech is evaluated via a holistic approach that takes various factors under consideration, including your high school performance and essays. Your choice of major will impact this process as well, because each major has its own criteria for admission.

To learn more about our admission selection process, recommended high school coursework, and our admitted student profile, please visit our admission website.