Work-Integrated Career Pathway

Cyber Engineering Immersive

Build a career at the intersection of software engineering and cybersecurity. You'll train full-time, earn while you learn, and graduate with two professional certificates and real paid experience already on your resume.

$0
Effective Tuition*
18 months
2 Certificates
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Overview

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Program Length

18 months

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Study Load

40hrs/week - months 1-4
20hrs/week - months 5-18

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Work Load

20hrs/week - months 5-18

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Delivery Mode

Flexible, on-demand curriculum
Weekly live sessions
Personalized mentor feedback

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Faculty Ratio

8:1 Student to Instructor Ratio
1:1 Student to Mentor Ratio

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Costs

Tuition: $29,900
Scholarship: $10,400
Earnings: $19,500
Effective Cost: $0

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Skill Level

Beginner to intermediate
No experience required

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Start Dates

The first Monday of every month

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Credential

Software Engineering Certificate
Cybersecurity Certificate

Why Cybersecurity Engineering

The Rarest Skill in the Room

The most valuable person in the room knows how to build and break things. Organizations don't just need people who can monitor systems. They need engineers who understand how software is built and how it fails under attack. That combination of production engineering experience and security depth is rare and increasingly essential. Graduates pursue security engineering roles with average salaries ranging from $110,000 to $145,000.

Security Engineer

$118,000 avg. salary

Designs and implements secure systems from the ground up, embedding security requirements into architecture and code rather than bolting them on after the fact.

Penetration Tester

$112,000 avg. salary

Simulates real-world attacks against production systems, identifies exploitable vulnerabilities, and translates findings into concrete remediation plans.

Detection Engineer

$115,000 avg. salary

Builds the monitoring systems, alerting logic, and threat detection workflows that identify and contain security incidents before they become breaches.

What You'll Learn

The Cyber Engineering Immersive runs in three phases. You start with the fundamentals of software engineering, then move into cybersecurity, and conclude with a capstone. In month 5, your apprenticeship begins and runs alongside your coursework for the remainder of the program.

Already a Software Engineer? Check out the Accelerated Cyber Engineering Immersive

Program Outline


18 months

Project-based learning

Flexible, online format

Work-integrated design

Industry mentorship

Instruction from a practitioner

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Phase 1: Software Engineering
  • Software Engineering Fundamentals
    Learn to build user interfaces and write clean, maintainable code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You'll solve logic-driven programming problems, work with core data structures, and use essential developer tools, including GitHub, finishing with a project built around a real business problem. Catalog→
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  • JavaScript Fundamentals
    Deepen your JavaScript skills with a focus on modern syntax, asynchronous programming, and testing. You'll build interactive, user-focused programs and finish with a command-line application that demonstrates clean logic and structured thinking. Catalog→
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  • JavaScript Interactions
    Build interactive web pages by combining DOM manipulation, asynchronous programming, and client-server communication. You'll integrate functionality and visual design throughout, finishing with a project that brings interactivity and structure together into a cohesive user interface. Catalog→
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  • Front-End Development with React 1
    Get introduced to React and the fundamentals of component-based architecture. You'll learn to work with props and state, translate visual designs into functional interfaces, and finish with a project that builds a set of React components from a provided mock-up. Catalog→
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  • Front-End Development with React 2
    Assemble React components into fully interactive applications by managing shared state and coordinating user interactions across complex component trees. You'll refine your approach to application structure and maintainability, finishing with a complete production-style front end. Catalog→
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  • Introduction to Python
    Learn the fundamentals of Python programming, including scripting, loops, functions, and core data structures. You'll work with libraries to manipulate and analyze data, finishing with a project that reinforces both problem-solving skills and real-world implementation. Catalog→
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  • Object-Oriented Programming
    Apply object-oriented design principles to model real-world entities and relationships in Python. You'll build organized, maintainable backend code and finish with a command-line application that demonstrates clean architecture and database-ready design patterns. Catalog→
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  • API Development
    Learn to build dynamic RESTful APIs using Python and a modern web framework. You'll cover request handling, data validation, serialization, and client-server communication, finishing with a REST API connected to a basic React client. Catalog→
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  • Relational Databases
    Work with relational databases using SQL and Flask-SQLAlchemy to build database-backed APIs. You'll model complex data relationships, apply normalization and validation techniques, and finish with an API that integrates cleanly with a relational database. Catalog→
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  • Back-End Development
    Build robust, secure backend systems using Python and Flask, with a focus on authentication and authorization using JWTs. You'll design APIs that support real users and protected resources, finishing with a production-style application integrated with a front-end client. Catalog→
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  • Software Engineering Project
    Bring together everything from the program to design and build real-world full-stack software systems. You'll scope requirements, architect solutions using React, Flask, and a relational database, and deliver polished, portfolio-ready projects built around genuine business and user problems. Catalog→
Phase 2: Cybersecurity
  • Introduction to Cybersecurity
    Build a strong technical foundation covering computer hardware, basic networking, and virtualization. You'll explore core system components, gain hands-on experience in the Linux command line, and finish with a practical assessment that challenges you to locate hidden flags across Windows and Linux virtual machines. Catalog→
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  • Operating Systems and Networking
    ‍    Learn to secure and troubleshoot computer systems and networks across Linux and Windows environments. You'll build a working understanding of networking concepts, operating system behavior, and common connectivity issues, finishing with an assessment that challenges you to diagnose and resolve real system and network problems. Catalog→
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  • System Hardening
    Strengthen and secure systems against real-world threats across on-premise and cloud environments. You'll deepen your Linux skills, explore Active Directory security, and examine common attack vectors and mitigations, finishing with hands-on experience automating security tasks and monitoring system integrity. Catalog→
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  • Threat Intelligence
    Learn how cyber threat intelligence is collected, analyzed, and applied to real-world security incidents. You'll work with frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK, turn raw security data into actionable insights, and explore how Governance, Risk, and Compliance considerations shape effective cybersecurity strategy. Catalog→
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  • SIEM and Threat Hunting
    Learn to detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents using modern SIEM tools. You'll collect and correlate logs, apply threat intelligence, and practice proactive threat hunting techniques, finishing with a project that uses these methods to investigate and resolve a realistic cybersecurity incident. Catalog→
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  • Security Architecture and Frameworks
    Learn to design and evaluate secure systems using industry frameworks and architectural principles. You'll assess vulnerabilities across networks, applications, and cloud environments and explore zero-trust design and network segmentation, finishing with a project that analyzes an IT architecture and recommends targeted mitigations. Catalog→
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  • Incident Response
    Learn to respond to cybersecurity incidents using digital forensics techniques across Windows and Linux environments. You'll analyze malware, investigate compromised systems, perform memory forensics, and apply Python-based API security methods, finishing with a project that walks through a realistic incident from investigation to containment. Catalog→
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  • Penetration Testing
    Learn the principles and practices of ethical hacking through techniques including reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, social engineering, and post-exploitation. You'll work with industry-standard tools, including Nmap, Burp Suite, and Metasploit, finishing with a penetration testing project that simulates real-world attack scenarios. Catalog→
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  • Penetration Testing Applications
    Expand your penetration testing skills into web applications, enterprise platforms, and mobile environments. You'll examine secure coding practices, Active Directory attack methods, credential dumping, and emerging topics like AI-driven attacks, finishing with a web application penetration testing project that brings these techniques together. Catalog→
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Phase 3: Capstone
  • Cyber Engineering Capstone
    Bring together everything from the program to assess, respond to, and communicate cybersecurity risk in professional environments. You'll analyze network architectures, investigate vulnerabilities, design incident response strategies, and produce clear documentation suited to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, finishing with a portfolio that reflects how real security teams operate. Catalog→

The Economics

The Apprenticeship

When you enroll in the an Immersive program, you're invited to apply to the Bletchley Fellowship, a nonprofit that works alongside Clarke and employers to enable our work-integrated education model. Fellows receive the Bletchley Scholarship, $10,400 applied directly to their tuition. The Fellowship also handles apprenticeship matching, connecting you with an employer before your program reaches month 5.
The apprenticeship pays approximately $19,500 over the remainder of the program. When you combine the scholarship and the apprenticeship earnings, the math works in your favor.
Learn More About the Bletchley Fellowship

Costs

Tuition: $29,900
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Scholarship: $10,400
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Earnings: $19,500
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Effective Cost: $0
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Built for You

The Immersive program is built for people who are ready to commit fully to a career change or a serious technical upgrade. You don't need a computer science background to start. You need to be ready for a full-time commitment for 18 months.

This program is a strong fit if you:

●   Are making a career change from a non-technical field

●   Want to enter the job market with real experience, not just an academic credential

●   Are ready to work hard in exchange for a credential, a portfolio, and a financial outcome that works in your favor

Already have engineering experience? Check out the Accelerated Cyber Engineering Immersive→

"I came without any experience with coding or cyber. I left with a portfolio and a job offer from my apprenticeship employer."

The first few months were hard. But the structure of the program meant I was never just studying in isolation. By the time I hit the cybersecurity coursework, I had enough foundation to actually understand what I was building.

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Tyler Brennan
Seattle, WA
"I knew I wanted to work in security. I didn't know how to get there without a CS degree. This was the answer."

The program built everything from the ground up. I never felt like I was being thrown into the deep end without preparation. And by the end I had real work experience to go with the credential.

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Megan Tully
Richmond, VA
"Most security programs teach you to use tools. This one taught me how the tools actually work."

That distinction matters more than I realized when I applied. Understanding systems at the engineering level is what separates you in interviews and on the job. I can see that clearly now.

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Shane Kowalski
Indianapolis, IN
"The apprenticeship started before I felt ready. That turned out to be exactly the point."

Getting placed in a real engineering role while I was still in the software engineering phase pushed me faster than I would have pushed myself. By the time the security coursework started I was already thinking like an engineer.

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Dana Merrill
Salt Lake City, UT
"I came without any experience with coding or cyber. I left with a portfolio and a job offer from my apprenticeship employer."

The first few months were hard. But the structure of the program meant I was never just studying in isolation. By the time I hit the cybersecurity coursework, I had enough foundation to actually understand what I was building.

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Tyler Brennan
Seattle, WA
"I knew I wanted to work in security. I didn't know how to get there without a CS degree. This was the answer."

The program built everything from the ground up. I never felt like I was being thrown into the deep end without preparation. And by the end I had real work experience to go with the credential.

Young man with blond hair wearing a dark blue henley shirt sitting outdoors at a metal table with blurred green trees and buildings in the background.
Megan Tully
Richmond, VA
"Most security programs teach you to use tools. This one taught me how the tools actually work."

That distinction matters more than I realized when I applied. Understanding systems at the engineering level is what separates you in interviews and on the job. I can see that clearly now.

Young woman with blonde hair in a side braid wearing a white sweater, seated in front of a bookshelf.
Shane Kowalski
Indianapolis, IN
"The apprenticeship started before I felt ready. That turned out to be exactly the point."

Getting placed in a real engineering role while I was still in the software engineering phase pushed me faster than I would have pushed myself. By the time the security coursework started I was already thinking like an engineer.

Young man with short hair wearing a green jacket outdoors with leafy background.
Dana Merrill
Salt Lake City, UT
"I came without any experience with coding or cyber. I left with a portfolio and a job offer from my apprenticeship employer."

The first few months were hard. But the structure of the program meant I was never just studying in isolation. By the time I hit the cybersecurity coursework, I had enough foundation to actually understand what I was building.

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Tyler Brennan
Seattle, WA
"I knew I wanted to work in security. I didn't know how to get there without a CS degree. This was the answer."

The program built everything from the ground up. I never felt like I was being thrown into the deep end without preparation. And by the end I had real work experience to go with the credential.

Young man with blond hair wearing a dark blue henley shirt sitting outdoors at a metal table with blurred green trees and buildings in the background.
Megan Tully
Richmond, VA
"Most security programs teach you to use tools. This one taught me how the tools actually work."

That distinction matters more than I realized when I applied. Understanding systems at the engineering level is what separates you in interviews and on the job. I can see that clearly now.

Young woman with blonde hair in a side braid wearing a white sweater, seated in front of a bookshelf.
Shane Kowalski
Indianapolis, IN
"The apprenticeship started before I felt ready. That turned out to be exactly the point."

Getting placed in a real engineering role while I was still in the software engineering phase pushed me faster than I would have pushed myself. By the time the security coursework started I was already thinking like an engineer.

Young man with short hair wearing a green jacket outdoors with leafy background.
Dana Merrill
Salt Lake City, UT

Questions?

We Have Answers

Do I need a computer science background to apply?

No. The Cyber Engineering Immersive is designed to take you from the fundamentals up. The first phase builds your software engineering foundation from scratch, so prior technical experience is not required.

How does the apprenticeship work?

Before month 5, the Bletchley Fellowship matches you with an employer. From month 5 onward you work approximately 20 hours per week in a real professional environment alongside your coursework. The apprenticeship is paid and the earnings are structured to fully offset your tuition.

What credentials do I earn?

You earn two professional certificates from Clarke College, one in Software Engineering and one in Cybersecurity. These credits can also articulate toward a Clarke Bachelor's or Master's degree if you decide to continue your education.

Is the program entirely online?

Yes. Clarke is fully online. You will have live weekly sessions, a dedicated mentor, and access to a cohort of peers, all through tools like Discord and GitHub.

What kind of jobs will I be prepared for?

Graduates pursue roles including Security Engineer, Penetration Tester, and Detection Engineer. Average salaries for these roles range from $110,000 to $145,000.

Is this program open to international students?

Clarke's academic programs are open to students regardless of citizenship or work authorization. However, the Bletchley Fellowship and apprenticeship component require that students be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship. If you are not currently authorized to work in the US, the Cybersecurity Certificate is available to you as an academic-only program without the apprenticeship requirement.

Can I do this program and keep my current job?

The first four months are full time at 40 hours per week, so this program is not designed to run alongside existing full-time employment. From month 5 onward the split between coursework and apprenticeship work totals approximately 40 hours per week. If you need a part-time option, the Cybersecurity Certificate may be a better fit.

Ready to Get Started?

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Cohorts start the first Monday of every month.

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