Intelligence and Security Studies MA

Intelligence and Security Studies MA is a Masters program taught at Brunel University Uxbridge, UK. Intake: September. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.

Brunel University Uxbridge offers the Intelligence and Security Studies MA. The programme is structured around a core of compulsory modules, one optional module, and a dissertation in a subject of your choice. You study intelligence history, contemporary threats and analytical methodology, and intelligence concepts, issues and institutions, then apply these themes through research and analysis.

Students can study full or part-time. The course can be taken on campus or through distance learning. Distance learning includes one “residential week” each spring to complete exercises and assessments on campus. Teaching includes practical, hands-on training with immersive simulations, a certification in industry tools, and the Brunel Analytic Simulated Exercise (BASE), plus an OSINT collection certificate provided by Prevail Partners.

Modules

• Intelligence and Security Studies Dissertation
• Intelligence History: Failure and Success
• Contemporary Threats and Analytical Methodology
• Intelligence Concepts, Issues and Institutions
• Counterintelligence and Security
• Intelligence Analysis Foundations, Methods and Applications

The minimum requirements for admission in Intelligence and Security Studies MA at Brunel University Uxbridge for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Brunel University Uxbridge.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Brunel University Uxbridge as pre-requiste for admission in Intelligence and Security Studies MA.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

A 2:1 (or above) UK Honours degree, or equivalent internationally recognised qualification, with an understanding of the realities of academic intelligence and security study and the frameworks within which intelligence and security operations work.

• an up to date transcript
• 1 academic reference
• an up to date CV
• a focused personal statement showing interest and understanding of the course

Applicants will be interviewed by telephone or in person.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.brunel.ac.uk/study/courses/intelligence-and-security-studies-ma

• public sector
• private firms: Securitas, Merck, Formula One, Pinkertons, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin
• smaller start-up intelligence companies: Grey Dynamics and b4 Secure

85 fully funded scholarships are listed for UK. See UK scholarships.