UNT’s new B.S. in Cybersecurity was formally approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) in March 2020 with an implementation date starting in the Fall 2020 semester. Given the rapidly changing and often unchartered environment that cybersecurity operates in, the B.S. in Cybersecurity was created to provide a high quality, academically challenging, and career-enriching educational program that is responsive to industry trends, changing standards, and employer needs. Approved only a few months before the program launch, we will discuss the lessons learned in the design and implementation of this new, high demand interdisciplinary degree program. In particular, we would like to share the technical, logistic, and marketing opportunities and challenges that we faced during this past year as we worked to get our new program off the ground, especially as we were met with further obstacles of social distancing and remote learning requirements due to COVID-19.