Students may use their elective credits within the MS degree to complete either a graduate certificate or a concentration. Currently, SCCJ offers a concentration in Cybersecurity and CSSH offers multiple graduate certificates. Graduate certificates as well as the Cybersecurity concentration are 12 credits, leaving students with 4 elective credits to use within CRIM. Since students are typically permitted to take 8 credits outside of SCCJ, the Graduate Program Director must approve student involvement in all concentrations and certificates. https://cssh.northeastern.edu/graduate/programs/certificate-programs. Students interested in pursuing the cybersecurity concentration may indicate so on their application to the MS program. Once admitted, students will work to utilize 12 of their 16 elective credits to complete the concentration. See below for details about the courses required to complete. http://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/social-sciences-humanities/criminology-criminal-justice/criminal-justice-mscj/#programrequirementstext