Information and Cybersecurity Operations (BS)

This option is for South Carolina students only. No additional credit is earned. Apprenticeship courses are pass/fail. 

• Current domestic students in the Associate or Bachelor in Computer and Information Science program are eligible to apply for the Apprenticeship Option. To be considered, students must have a GPA of 3.0 or higher and a 90% or higher attendance rate, and be a full-time student. Students must apply before the end of their first semester. 

• Students must maintain full-time student status while participating in apprenticeship courses. If selected, students must remain an active student at ECPI University during the apprenticeship and will be assigned a mentor that they will work with throughout the apprenticeship. The program consists of up to six semesters of apprenticeship courses.

• Apprenticeships are work experiences that may include consultancy-type projects and/or applied research that solves problems and are designed to apply the material learned in class.

• Students enter the Apprenticeship Option on a probationary status and will be evaluated after the completion of 500 hours to determine if the apprentice will continue in the program. After the probationary period, students will be evaluated every 500 hours.