Security and Intelligence Studies

Unique Features

• Benefit from a unique multidisciplinary approach that merges security leadership skills and an understanding of civil liberties.
• Learn from faculty security experts who bring their real-world experience as constitutional lawyers, White House advisers, CIA operatives, military intelligence officers, and more to the classroom.
• Gain a whole-of-government approach to security studies with a set of required foundational courses and a broad range of electives to choose from.
• Focus your degree with three tracks: Corporate Security Management, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and Strategic Intelligence and Analysis
• While this program is offered on campus, most of your classes will be taken online, allowing you to work with an extended network of students who participate in our different modalities.

Career Outlook

The program prepares students for security roles such as intelligence analyst, special agent, information security officer, corporate security specialist and manager, criminal investigator, or fraud investigator.

About the Campus

In Arlington—a hub of technical innovation, security, defense, and policy—we partner with government, industry, and nonprofits to prepare learners for leadership in jobs of the future.

We’re centrally located in the heart of the National Capital Region in Rosslyn, one of Arlington County’s most vibrant neighborhoods, at 17th Street North in the Arlington Tower. Our campus space features state-of-the-art flexible learning spaces and areas to collaborate, study, network with peers or employers, and host or attend community events. Additionally, the building includes a rooftop gathering space with stunning views of Arlington, VA, and Washington, DC. The campus is also home to the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security.