Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Cybersecurity.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

- ...

Objectives

The objective of all programmes at the Faculty of Engineering Science is the education of academically skilled engineers for an active career in a technical industrial environment, the public sector or service sector. The engineer’s task is the ‘creative and innovative application of science for the design, development, production and exploitation of products and services that are useful to society or the management of those activities’. This academic education is the foundation of the engineering graduate who subsequently evolves through lifelong learning.

The Faculty aims at educating students in the various roles engineers can take: engineers as experts in their discipline, engineers as researchers, engineers as problem solvers and designers, engineers as professionals and engineers in an international context.

The Master of Cybersecurity will keep a strong focus on the engineering approach in education, but recognizes that not all the students will have an engineering background. The programme aims to form experts who are able to design and innovate in securing ICT solutions in various sectors; from securing private data in health applications through to securing the industrial control systems used in the power grid. The engineer will know how to combine various technologies together in order to achieve a desired security outcome and to understand the limitations of current techniques used to secure such systems.

At the end of the programme, the graduate will have acquired a good understanding to the fundamentals of technologies used to secure ICT systems, and they will be in a position to apply their knowledge to real world problems. They will have learned how to produce initial solutions to security problems, and will be able to acquire new insights and methodologies independently. In addition, they will be able to apply their knowledge to both advanced research and in industry.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blueprint_MNM_Cybersecurity.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents