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Cybersecurity Awareness & Competitions

External News

Awareness Resources (Educational Modules/Workshops)

Awards, Scholarships & Fellowships

Competitions/Hackathons

Internships

Internal News

Awareness Resources (Educational Modules/Workshops)

Awards, Scholarships & Fellowships

Competitions/Hackathons

Internships

  • Find more opportunities on Handshake! There are hundreds of internship opportunities currently available on Handshake. Login using your UNCP credentials to search for internships and schedule appointments to meet with Career Center staff members throughout your search.

Research Assistantships

  • CS Department has four paid research assistantships available to work on Internet-of-Vehicles Security: https://forms.gle/7qEtYdcAVqnGBpBe6 (submit your interest using the form)

 

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Student Internships

Students have opportunities for hands-on work experiences through internships.   We have had students intern with: Spectrum, CORVID Technologies, GitHub, PC Tech, Community Care of NC, Bar Ridge Capital Group LLC, UNCP’s Division of Information Technology, and the LREMC. Opportunities with Red Hat are in development.

Student
Employment Opportunities

According to US New & World Report, cybersecurity ranked 5th of the top college majors leading to higher-paying jobs.  There are private and public sector jobs in defense, healthcare, law enforcement, education businesses, non-profits, just to name a few.  Job titles include security analysts, digital forensic specialists, vulnerability analyst, security software engineer.

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Job Placements

Our students can have rewarding careers. Alumni have interesting jobs as: principal systems engineer at Fidelity Investments, support engineer at Microsoft, lead Mobile Developer at AAMP Global, Software Engineer at Amazon, Implementation analyst at Pharmaceutical Product Development, and as a technical consulting engineer at CISCO.