A first or second class honours degree, or 3rd class degree with three years' relevant experience, or pass degree with five years' relevant experience, or HND/C with seven years' relevant experience.

Exceptional candidates may be accepted with seven years' relevant experience, where this experience is gained in information security, information operations, information risk or a related role.

Owing to security classification and course purpose, only UK Government-sponsored and security-cleared students with a justifiable interest in cyberspace operations will be enrolled on the CSOps named award or its two modules on planning in the full spectrum context and cyber in the C2 battle.

Security clearance for Shrivenham

Some Cranfield University courses are delivered at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham which is a Ministry of Defence (MoD) site. All applicants to courses that are wholly or partially delivered at Shrivenham must already hold a security clearance or higher or be willing to undertake security clearance processing.

IELTS
IELTS Academic, IELTS Indicator, IELTS Online, IELTS for UKVI Academic - 6.5 overall and 5.5 in all skill components.

TOEFL
TOEFL iBT (we accept TOEFL iBT, TOEFL iBT Home Edition and TOEFL iBT Paper Edition) - 92 total and minimum skill component scores of 18 reading, 17 listening, 20 speaking and 17 writing.