Program Details

• Program Description
• Admission Process
• Date, Times, & Location
• Tuition, Labs, & Fees
• Financial Aid
• Links to Career Resources
  
  

Short Description

Students learn foundational knowledge and skills in computer and network security, security vulnerabilities, attack mechanisms and techniques, intrusion detection and prevention, cryptographic systems, system hardening, risk identification, incidence response, penetration testing, key management, access control, recovery and a specialized course focused on web security.

Program Content

This program is offered in the traditional format where the student is physically in the classroom each school day, and a hybrid format where the student attends the class physically in the classroom for at least 51% of the time and the remaining time the student attends the class online. This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and cybersecurity-related careers in the Information Technology career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of cybersecurity.

The content includes but is not limited to foundational knowledge and skills in computer and network security, security vulnerabilities, attack mechanisms and techniques, intrusion detection and prevention, cryptographic systems, system hardening, risk identification, incidence response, penetration testing, key management, access control, recovery and a specialized course focused on web security.

Certification/Licensure: CompTIA Security+, Certified Internet Web (CIW) Web Security Associate. Once you pass your Comp TIA Security+ and your CIW Web Security Associate, you can have your CIW Web Security Associate upgraded to a Web Security Specialist.

CTSO: SkillsUSA and/or HOSA are the approved cocurricular career and technical student organizations which provide activities for students as an integral part of the instruction by providing leadership training and reinforcing specific career and technical skills.

Articulation: May be available toward credits at Florida public colleges/universities.

Speak with a career counselor for more information.

• Apply to MTC at https://www.manateetech.edu/apply-now/. Submit your application to access your “To-Do List.” You are not accepted into the program after applying, you must complete your do list.
• Complete your “To-Do List” at https://www.MTCdashboard.net.
  
  

Note: The Basic Skills Assessment must be taken within 6 weeks of your admit date unless exemption criteria have been documented per State Statute. For exemption information, see the Student Handbook located here: https://www.manateetech.edu/students/quick-docs/

Start Date

August, January

Times

Full-time (day) : Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Length Of Program

Full-time 750 hours – approximately 7 months full-time to complete

Program’s OCP (Occupational Completion Points)

OCP A

Course Number: CTS0018

Course: Cybersecurity Associate

600 hours

OCP B

Course Number: CTS0085

Course: Web Security Specialist

150 hours

Location:

MTC Main Campus, 6305 State Road 70 East, Bradenton, FL 34203

Program #Y100500 CIP# 0511100316

Estimated Tuition, Lab, and Fees (Includes $60.00 Facility and Equipment Use Fee)

$3,085.00

Additional Fees Due Prior To Pre-Admittance

Application Fee

$45.00

Bookstore

Uniform* (2 black Polo Recommended – $30.00 each

$60.00

Textbook(s)**

$75.00

Estimated Total Cost of Program

$3,265.00

• Uniforms may be covered, for Pell eligible students once aid has been applied to all tuition & fee charges. Prices are subject to change.
• Textbook cost based on Barnes and Noble price estimate and does not include shipping or tax. Free shipping timeframe is two weeks prior to term start and the first week of the term.
  
  

Financial aid available depending on student’s eligibility.

All pre-admission fees are non-refundable and not covered by Financial Aid.

Prices are subject to change.

Annual fees (charged each academic year from July 1—June 30).

Estimated Textbook List And Pricing

Textbook estimate. Current book list and prices.

Tuition is $2.92 per hour for Florida residents. Tuition is $11.71 per hour for Non-Florida residents.

Visit MTC Financial Aid page for more information.

Florida Department of Education: Frameworks

Possible Careers And Outlook

15-1299.05 Information Security Engineers

15-1212.00 Information Security Analysts

15-1151.00 Computer User Support Specialists

Top Local Employers

Thrive, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Life Surge

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Program Facts

Job Placement Rate

71%

LENGTH

750 hrs (6 mos)

LOCATION

Main Campus

DELIVERY

Full-Time: Hybrid

DUAL ENROLLMENT

Yes

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6305 State Road 70 East, Bradenton, FL 34203

Call 941.751.7900

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