Two-year online college ‘Campus’ now offers cybersecurity track

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Two-year online college Campus on July 9 launched a cybersecurity concentration that offers an associate degree that aims to prepare students for careers in cybersecurity.Campus bills itself as the first college created in the AI era that’s geared to meet the needs of today’s students, many of whom have been frustrated by the slow pace and high costs of conventional colleges.Tuition for the two-year college, that includes backing from the likes of Open AI’s Sam Altman and former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, costs $19,520. That’s on the high end of the national average of between $10,000 and $20,000 for a two-year degree. The cyber program promises to prepare students to work in IT support and security operations or transfer to one of the roughly 30 four-year colleges Campus partners with. Students will take a dedicated “AI in Cybersecurity” course that covers how AI has been reshaping threat detection, security operations, and incident response.”In cybersecurity, AI means that the threats are getting smarter and the demand for people who can meet them is growing,” said Tade Oyerine, founder and chancellor of Campus. “This program is about giving young people a real on-ramp to a field that’s critically important and urgently needs AI-native talent.”According to the 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 95% of cybersecurity teams report at least one skills gap with professionals and cite skills deficits, not just headcount, as one of their most pressing challenges as AI rapidly reshapes both the nature of attacks and the expertise required to defend against them. It’s also important to note that in the United States alone, there are now 4.8 million unfilled cyber positions, so the need for people with these skills is real.Kevin Surace, chief executive officer at TokenCore, said affordable, career focused programs like Campus are essential because cybersecurity cannot solve its workforce problem by relying only on…

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