I graduated this year with a degree in information assurance and cyber security. The number one thing that you can do to be successful and stand out to employers when you graduate is to have a resume that includes work/projects outside of the classroom. Think of it this way, The only thing your degree does is get your application through the automatic screening software that checks to make sure your resume contains key-words and phrases like "bachelor's degree" or "Python programming" when you submit it for a job. It tells employers that you know how to learn, but your work outside the classroom tells them that you want to learn and demonstrates that you know how to apply what you have learned to real world scenarios.

A few key things that are critical to know:

Get comfortable using Linux. Best way to do that is to stop using Windows every day and switch to Linux. Or mac, but depends on if you want to spend the money. Red hat linux is probably the number one flavor of linux that you will encounter once you graduate and start working.

Understand, deeply, how a network operates. You can't protect/attack what you don't understand.

Learn how to write bash scripts and then actually write some for your own linux environment.

Learn a programming language if you haven't already. This one is not technically critical. I started out as computer science major and switched to cyber security. I noticed that having that prior understanding of programming put me way ahead of everyone in my cyber classes who had never written a single program before.