KTH Royal Institute of Technology MSc Cybersecurity
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

MSc Cybersecurity

Stockholm, Sweden

MSc

2 years

English

Full time

Aug 2026

SEK 360,000 *

On-Campus

* for non-EU/EEA/swiss | no tuition fee for citizens of EU/EEA country or switzerland

Key Summary

    About : The MSc Cybersecurity focuses on developing skills necessary for protecting systems and data against cyber threats. The program combines technical knowledge with practical experience in cybersecurity measures over the course of one year. The curriculum prepares students to understand the complexities of cybersecurity within various contexts.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue diverse career paths such as cybersecurity analyst, information security manager, and ethical hacker. Potential employers include public and private organizations, government agencies, and cybersecurity firms, providing numerous opportunities to make impactful contributions in the field.

Our society is increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures, and as a result, cyberattacks on power grids, financial systems, and communication infrastructure have devastating consequences. Cybersecurity has emerged as one of the most critical challenges for the future. In a domain where knowledge is scarce, the master's programme in Cybersecurity provides a modern portfolio of courses fostering the cybersecurity engineers of the future.

Cybersecurity at KTH

Cybersecurity is a broad and multifaceted subject. It spans from fundamental computing theory to software engineering, computer communication, large-scale distributed systems, and physical process control into human and social behaviour. The programme is rooted in computer science and extends to business and social aspects of cybersecurity. The programme starts with mandatory courses providing an overview of the field, including a course in ethical hacking, and a solid base in the fundamental security pillar of cryptography. There is also a mandatory course that puts cybersecurity in a sociotechnical context with law, policy, threat actor behaviour, end-user behaviour, and security governance.

At the heart of the program are all the cybersecurity-related courses available at KTH. This includes software security, communication network security, digital forensics, privacy, cryptography, cyber risk analysis, cyber-physical security and hardware security. Here you choose courses totalling a minimum of 30 ECTS. The program also allows you to choose freely among all KTH courses (for which you have the qualifications). This allows you to combine your cybersecurity skills with other skill sets, such as software technology, machine learning, or management, or perhaps just dig deeper into cybersecurity.

During the final semester of the programme, you will carry out a master's degree project where you work closely with the KTH research faculty within cybersecurity. In addition to involving KTH research faculty in the programme, we have also made extra efforts to build close ties with the industry. The programme has a reference group that gathers key cybersecurity individuals from the Swedish industry and the public sector. Many courses include external guest lecturers, and many master's degree projects are done in collaboration with companies.

Infrastructure that students can get in contact with includes, for example, a lab for ethical hacking. Students can also participate in extracurricular events such as the yearly midnight sun capture the flag competition that KTH co-founded, as well as the Cybersecurity and Privacy (CySeP) Summer School.

Even though the programme is campus-based, it is no surprise that much of the teaching is conducted digitally. This is a two-year programme (120 ECTS credits) in English. Graduates are awarded the degree of Master of Science. The programme is given mainly at the KTH Campus in Stockholm by the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (at KTH).

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