Politecnico di Milano and Università Bocconi Master's in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance

Jointly taught by Politecnico di Milano and Università Bocconi, this two-year Master's degree was developed to equip graduates with the technical skills, soft skills, and legal and economic principles to assess cyber risk in organisations. This degree is taught entirely in English and prepares students to enter the job market in companies, financial institutions, and other public and private institutions. There are two main career options following on from this degree: Cyber Risk Managers and Data Protection and Security Managers. In the former, graduates are able to design and implement strategies that protect a company from cyber risks and the latter sees graduates support tasks related to data protection, privacy management and compliance in order to govern risks on data.

Study programme

As this is a jointly-taught programme, students will spend time at both Politecnico di Milano and Università Bocconi over the two years. The study programme is expected to follow the structure listed below:

• First year
  • First semester at Politecnico Milano
    • Seminar: Introduction to cyber risk taken at Università Bocconi
    • Four compulsory courses at Politecnico di Milano covering Software methodologies and architectures for security; Cybersecurity technologies, procedures and policies; Artificial intelligence for security; Technology governance
  • Second semester at Università Bocconi
    • Seminar: social engineering at Politecnico Milano
    • Four compulsory courses at Università Bocconi covering strategy and governance for cyber risk; Cyber risk and data protection law; Methods and data analytics for risk assessment; Institutional scenarios of cyber risk
• Second year
  • Ethical aspects of security and privacy seminar at Politecnico di Milano
  • Soft skills seminar at Università Bocconi
  • Four electives on the following topics: data protection, business and cyber intelligence, Blockchain and cryptoassets, machine learning in cyber risks, computer forensics, fintech models
  • Internship
  • Foreign language
  • Master's thesis

Admission requirements

This programme requires students to have completed a Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Engineering, Computer Science, Business Economics, Political Sciences. It is ideal that students have a multidisciplinary backgrounds drawing from a broad range of subjects studied previously alongside their interest in cyber risks.