2024 Best International Security Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
182International Security Degrees Awarded
A degree in international security is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #548 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for international security students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 182 degrees in international security to qualified students.
Your choice of international security school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for international security schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best International Security Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for International Security in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of international security degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in International Security
It's hard to beat Angelo State University if you want to pursue a degree in international security. Located in the city of San Angelo, Angelo State is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 57th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were approximately 103 international security students who graduated with this degree at Angelo State in the most recent year we have data available.
University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a good decision for students interested in a degree in international security. Located in the city of Albuquerque, UNM is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #514 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNM is a great university overall.
There were roughly 25 international security students who graduated with this degree at UNM in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat The University of Texas at El Paso if you wish to pursue a degree in international security. UTEP is a very large public university located in the city of El Paso. This university ranks 56th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 38 international security students who graduated with this degree at UTEP in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of international security school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for international security schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
