According to the International Information Security Certification Consortium, a nonprofit organization that specializes in training and certifications for cybersecurity professionals, an additional 1.8 million cyber professionals will be needed in the U.S. by 2022. These are good jobs, too: The median salary in 2017 for information security analysts was more than $95,000.

The big difference from other cyber programs ... is the skills-heavy work done by UA students in CyberApolis, a malware "sandbox" and labs in forensics, honeynet and the "internet of things." CyberApolis may be only a virtual city, but the cyber program's lessons are real, with live online lectures and practical exercises modeled on actual data crises such as those experienced in recent years by retailers Home Depot and Target.