During my degree, I had a crossover unit for cryptography. The unit was a mix of computer science majors, and also a new "cyber security" degree the university

During my degree, I had a crossover unit for cryptography. The unit was a mix of computer science majors, and also a new "cyber security" degree the university had recently started. This was a third year unit. Holy-moly, did the cyber security students flop from the first class. It was immediately clear that the new "degree" they had signed up for had not given them even elementary math skills in comp. sci related fields (discrete math, linear algebra). A few of them put in the hard yards, studied about a year's worth of math and did okay. But the majority flopped out hard and failed. The "degree" was dropped a year later. Poor kids.