Where Cybercrime Meets Financial Crime
Cyber threats are evolving at a pace unlike anything organizations have experienced before. Today's threat landscape extends far beyond traditional hacking. Cybercriminals increasingly blend digital attacks with financial crimes, creating complex schemes that target institutions, customers, and critical financial systems.
From sophisticated email fraud and account takeovers to online trafficking networks and illicit marketplaces, nearly every major cyber-enabled crime has a financial component. The consequences are far-reaching: exposed Social Security numbers, compromised account information, stolen credit and debit card data, fraudulent loans, and devastating financial losses.
As cyber and financial crime continue to converge, organizations need professionals who can understand both worlds—and transform intelligence into action.
Our master's program is the only cyber threat intelligence program in the United States specifically designed to address the intersection of pure cyber threats, cyber-enabled crimes, and financial crime investigations.
Learn from Real Attacks. Prepare for Real Threats.
This is not a program built around hypothetical scenarios.
Each week, students examine actual cyber incidents that have impacted financial institutions. Through detailed case studies, you'll dissect the attack methods used by threat actors, identify vulnerabilities that enable the breach, and develop intelligence-driven strategies to prevent future attacks.
By studying real-world events, you'll gain practical insight into how financial institutions collect, analyze, and operationalize cyber threat intelligence to protect their organizations, customers, and assets.
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- Format: 100% Online
- Est. time to complete: 1-2 years
- Total credits: 30 credits
- Entry terms: Fall I, Fall II, Spring I, Summer I
- Explore all of our Investigations program options
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TUITION DISCOUNTS
If you are a sworn officer or a correctional officer anywhere worldwide, you may be eligible to receive a tuition discount. We also offer a tuition discounts to members of professional organizations such as the ACAMS, ACFCS, NHCAA and others.
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Learn from professors who are dedicated to your success.
Our faculty are leaders and innovators in their fields, bringing both deep professional experience and academic rigor to the classroom.
Develop the Skills Employers Need
Graduates emerge with a comprehensive understanding of modern cyber threats and the analytical skills required to combat them. Throughout the program, students learn to:
- Apply the six phases of the cyber threat intelligence lifecycle to collect, analyze, and evaluate actionable intelligence
- Identify and classify the attack vectors used by today's most sophisticated threat actors
- Extract intelligence from social media, open-source platforms, and deep and dark web environments to support financial crime investigations
- Assess emerging cyber risks and develop mitigation strategies tailored to the financial sector
- Translate intelligence findings into actionable recommendations that strengthen organizational resilience
- 100% Online: This means you can complete the program from anywhere in the world!
- Flexibility: Based on experience, and/or previous training/graduate education, students can substitute other courses from the program for required core courses.
- Transfer Credits: Up to 6 credit hours can be transferred in to meet the degree requirements, with approval by the program director.
Built by Industry. Connected to Employers.
The program was conceived and designed with direct input from leaders across cybersecurity, financial crime investigations, law enforcement, and intelligence analysis.
Industry experts, federal, state, and local law enforcement professionals, and respected organizations—including the International Association of Financial Crimes, the Digital Forensics Certification Board, BlockChain Intelligence Group, and SAS—helped shape the curriculum to ensure graduates are prepared for today's most pressing threats.
Many of these organizations also represent potential future employers, creating valuable connections between classroom learning and professional opportunity.
Lead the Fight Against Tomorrow's Threats
The future of cybersecurity belongs to professionals who can connect digital threats to financial risk, uncover hidden intelligence, and help organizations stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated adversaries.
If you're ready to become part of that future, this program offers a unique pathway to expertise at the intersection of cyber threat intelligence and financial crime investigations.
Finish In As Little As One Year
Our master’s degree in investigations is a 30-credit hour, 10-course degree that can be completed in around ten months. This accelerated curriculum allows you to earn your master’s degree at a pace consistent with your career goals while balancing it with your life demands.
Certificate Programs
If you are not ready to begin a master’s degree program, you may also start with one of our graduate certificate programs including Financial Crime Investigation, Trafficking in Persons Investigation, Criminal Investigations, Compliance Investigations and Sports Integrity Investigations.
Selected Courses and Programs
The University of New Haven offers a wide variety of in-depth courses that create a transformational educational experience for our students who are interested in an investigations related degree or certificate program. To view the complete list of courses for each degree and certificate, check out the Academic Catalog:
- Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance Investigations, M.S.
- Cyber Threat Intelligence and Financial Crimes Investigations, M.S.
- Digital Forensic Investigations, M.S.
- Investigations, M.S., Criminal Investigations Concentration
- Investigations, M.S., Digital Forensic Investigations Concentration
- Investigations, M.S., Financial Crimes Investigations Concentration
- Investigations Graduate Certificates
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