2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 978 people earned their degree in critical infrastructure protection, making the major the 444th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 206 critical infrastructure protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 86 critical infrastructure protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in critical infrastructure protection. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their critical infrastructure protection program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Southeast Region

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Fairfax, Virginia, and it awarded 84 bachelors’s critical infrastructure protection degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full George Mason University Critical Infrastructure Protection Report

2

Anderson University South Carolina
Anderson, South Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Anderson University South Carolina landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Anderson, South Carolina, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s critical infrastructure protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Critical Infrastructure Protection at Anderson University South Carolina

3

Averett University
Danville, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Averett University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Southeast Region. Danville, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s critical infrastructure protection degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full AU Critical Infrastructure Protection Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Critical Infrastructure Protection

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.