BS Cyber Security

About BSCySec

Our BS in Cybersecurity (BSCySec) program prepares students to tackle modern security challenges in the digital age. This program emphasizes the principles of cybersecurity, risk management, ethical hacking, and digital forensics, ensuring students can design and implement secure systems and respond to security threats effectively.

Objectives

  • PEO 1:  Entered in the cybersecurity and computing profession or related fields in prominent organizations or working as a technopreneur.
  • PEO 2: Become medium level experts able to creatively apply their expertise of science, engineering and technology to the solution of technical problems.
  • PEO 3: Earned a reputation as a professional, sensitive to the environmental, social, safety and economic context and possess a strong commitment to ethical practices.
  • PEO 4:  Attained a junior leadership position and be acknowledged as a valuable team member able to communicate effectively.
  • PEO 5: Continued their professional development and physical well-being. 

Learning Outcomes

Program outcomes are the narrower statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the knowledge, skills and attitude that the students acquire while progressing through the program. PLO’s of UG program are as under:

  • Academic Education
    Completion of an accredited program of study designed to prepare graduates as computing professionals.
  • Knowledge for Solving Computing Problems
    Apply knowledge of computing fundamentals, knowledge of a computing specialization, and mathematics, science, and domain knowledge appropriate for the computing specialization to the abstraction and conceptualization of computing models from defined problems and requirements.
  • Problem Analysis
    Identify, formulate, research literature, and solve complex computing problems reaching substantiated conclusions using fundamental principles of mathematics, computing sciences, and relevant domain disciplines.
  • Design / Development of Solutions
    Design and evaluate solutions for complex computing problems, and design and evaluate systems, components, or processes that meet specified needs with appropriate consideration for public health and safety, cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
  • Modern Tool Usage
    Create, select, adapt and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern computing tools to complex computing activities, with an understanding of the limitations.
  • Individual and Teamwork 
    Function effectively as an individual and as a member or leader in diverse teams and in multi-disciplinary settings.
  • Communication
    Communicate effectively with the computing community and with society at large about complex computing activities by being able to comprehend and write effective reports, design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and understand clear instructions.
  • Computing Professionalism and Society
    Understand and assess societal, health, safety, legal, and cultural issues within local and global contexts, and the consequential responsibilities relevant to professional computing practice.
  • Ethics
    Understand and commit to professional ethics, responsibilities, and norms of professional computing practice.
  • Life-long Learning
    Recognize the need, and have the ability, to engage in independent learning for continual development as a computing professional.

Tentative Study Plan - (BSCySec)

Semester 1:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Programming Fundamentals 3+1
2Application of Information & Communication Technologies 2+1
3Discrete Structures3+0
4Calculus and Analytic Geometry3+0
5Functional English3+0
Total16

Semester 2:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Database Systems3+1
2Object Oriented Programming                                                     3+1
3Digital Logic Design2+1
4Multivariable Calculus3+0
5Linear Algebra3+0
Total17

Semester 3:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Artificial Intelligence 2+1
2Data Structures                                                                               3+1
3Information Security2+1
4Computer Networks2+1
5Software Engineering 3+0
6Probability & Statistics 3+0
Total19

Semester 4:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Computer Organization and Assembly Language                    2+1
2Advance Database Management Systems2+1
3Theory of Automata3+0
4Applied Physics 2+1
5Expository Writing 3+0
6Islamic Studies2+0
Total17

Semester 5:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Operating Systems2+1
2HCI & Computer Graphics                                                             2+1
3Computer Architecture2+1
4Domain Elective 12+1
5Domain Elective 22+1
6General Education Requirement                               2+0
Total17

Semester 6:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Compiler Construction2+1
2Parallel & Distributed Computing                                                2+1
3Domain Elective 32+1
4Domain Elective 42+1
5Domain Elective 52+1
6Domain Elective 62+1
Total18

Semester 7:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Final Year Project - I 0+2
2Analysis of Algorithms                                                                   3+0
3Technical & Business Writing                                       3+0
4Entrepreneurship3+0
5Domain Elective 72+1
6Elective Supporting Course3+0
Total16

Semester 8:

Sr. No.SubjectCredit Hours
1Final Year Project - II0+4
2Ideology and Constitution of Pakistan                                        2+0
3Professional Practices2+0
4Civics and Community Engagement2+0
Total10