Cybersecurity Education, Research & Outreach Center

With the CyberCorps program, both Tennessee Tech undergraduate and graduate students will benefit immensely. For each year in the SFS program, students' benefits include:

• Full coverage of all tuition
• $3,000 health insurance reimbursement
• $6,000 as Professional Allowance
• $25,000 stipend (for undergraduates) and $34,000 stipend (for graduate students)

Tennessee Tech CyberCorp is a hybrid program that offers two paths to students:

Accelerated Path to Master's program: 

• Open only to TN Tech CS Cybersecurity concentration fast track students after 60 credit hours completion
• Receive scholarship as undergraduate SFS scholar during junior and senior year in fast track undergraduate program
• Receive scholarship as graduate SFS scholar during remaining 1 year in Master’s program

Traditional Path to Master's program:

• Open to any student across nation
• Receive scholarship as graduate SFS scholar during 2 years in Master’s program

Fall Scholarships: Submission Deadline - April 30st, Award Announcement - May 15th

Spring Scholarships: Submission Deadline - October 31st, Award Announcement - November 15th

Eligible candidates can apply HERE. Please address questions about the scholarship to sfs@tntech.edu.

Accelerated Path Eligibility:

• Be a full-time TN Tech CS student within two years of graduation with a bachelor’s degree;
• Be eligible to enroll in the Computer Science Fast Track program (overall GPA of 3.25 and a GPA for CS courses of at least 3.5);
• Enrolled in the Cybersecurity concentration;
• Demonstrated commitment towards cybersecurity career;
• Commitment to complete Master’s degree with additional one more year;
• Commitment to contribute in TN Tech CEROC’s educational, research and outreach activities

Traditional Path Eligibility: 

• Any undergraduate student across nation with GPA of at least 3.0/4.0 in computer science or related fields;
• GRE scores with Quantitative ≥ 50%; Verbal ≥ 33%; Analytical Writing ≥ 33%. (Tennessee Tech students will not be required to take the GRE).
• Availability of appropriate faculty to serve as research advisor.
• Demonstrated participation in undergraduate research and/or competitions in the field.
• Demonstrated involvement with independent/group projects and/or professional experience in the field.
• Demonstrated commitment towards cybersecurity career;
• Commitment to contribute in Tennessee Tech CEROC’s educational, research and outreach activities.
• Three letters of recommendation that demonstrate strong evidence for success in the program.

The students must commit as per scholarship requirements to study cybersecurity at Tennessee Tech, participate in various service learning activities at the Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach Center at Tennessee Tech, work paid summer internships with participating federal, state, local, or tribal government agency, or federally funded research and development center. In addition to that, they also must spend one year working (paid employment) for one of the aforementioned government services after graduation for every year the scholarship was awarded. Students must be eligible to acquire security clearance, as needed.

Any additional questions regarding the program can be directed to: sfs@tntech.edu