TU's New School For Cyber Studies Starting To Gain Traction

The University of Tulsa approved a school of cyber studies back in 2021. That school is now starting to take off with students.

TU has been involved in cyber research and education for over 25 years and has offered a degree in cyber security for some time.

However, the school of cyber studies will be a little different. According to the chair of the school of cyber studies, Tyler Moore, the cyber studies department will teach students how to handle cyber challenges across many different disciplines.

"We are called the school of cyber studies and not just cyber because most of what we do is cyber security, but cyber studies more broadly encompasses the digitization of everything. So we are interested in how our lives and economy are being transformed through this digitization," Moore said.

Moore said that cyber studies affect everything and everyone from psychology to criminology to engineering, and while the school will gain its first few graduates in the next month, students and alumni alike are excited about the future of the program.

"We have students who come here wanting to work on cyber and wanting to major in it. We had to tell them 'no you couldn’t,' but now we say 'yes you can.' So the reaction has been very positive, and we have a lot of students who are happy that they can actually major in this field that they wanted to major in from before," Moore said.

Moore said that this school of cyber studies is a unique program in that there aren't a whole lot of universities across the country that have a similar cyber studies program.