CyberCorpsⓇ Scholarship for URI Undergraduate Students

Typically URI Undergraduate students apply for the CyberCorps scholarship in the Spring semester of their Junior year.

The minimal qualifications for applicants are:

  • A grade of B or better in CSC 211 Object-Oriented Programming
  • A grade of B or better in CSF 432 Introduction To Network Security *
  • Minimal GPA of 3.0 (out of 4.0) as a Computer Science major
  • A citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States
  • A completed ABM application in the GradCAS system.
  • * CSF 410 or CSF 430 with approval from advisor

Applications will be reviewed, and scholarship recipients selected, by a Committee of faculty and staff in the URI CS Department. The deadline to apply for a CyberCorp Scholarship is in the spring of each year.

The CyberCorp Scholar Course Schedule

URI undergraduate students are required to complete URI Advanced Bachelor’s Masters (ABM) program in CS/Cybersecurity with scholarship support in their Senior and Graduate years.  A CyberCorp scholar typically follows this course schedule (details on courses are available here):

Prior To Application Prior to Bachelors Summer Between Undergraduate and Graduate Years Graduate Fall Graduate Spring
CSC 211
CSF 432		 CSF 430
CSF 534
CSF 505		 CyberCorps Internship CSF 410
CSF 536
CSF 560
CSF 505		 CSF 524
CSF 580
CSF 590
CSF 505

Students must take CSC 211 Object-Oriented Programming prior to applying to the SFS program, while CSF 202 System Fundamentals For Cybersecurity, and CSF 432 Introduction To Network Security are strongly recommended. 

CyberCorp scholars must take CSF 534 Advanced Topics In Network and System Security and CSF 430 Information Assurance while an undergraduate in order to be able to complete the PSM requirements within the one additional graduate year. CSF 432, CSF 430, and CSF 534 may be counted to both the scholar’s undergraduate CS degree and their PSM as part of the ABM program.

CyberCorp scholars will get an undergraduate SFS activities experience in their final undergraduate year. They will work with Dr. Fay-Wolfe and the URI Cybersecurity Center faculty and staff on cybersecurity experiential and professional preparedness activities. 

CyberCorp scholars will do a CyberCorp internship in their first summer (between graduating with their BS and starting their graduate year).

In each of the Fall and Spring semesters of their graduate year, CyberCorp scholars will take a course that is designed specifically for CyberCorp scholars to survey the landscape of government cybersecurity jobs and provide support for students’ upcoming job search process. 

For more information contact:  dfcsc@etal.uri.edu