2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Critical Infrastructure Protection is the 444th most popular major in the country with 978 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 457 critical infrastructure protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 243 critical infrastructure protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in critical infrastructure protection. That schools that top this list have a program in critical infrastructure protection in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree critical infrastructure protection students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Utica College
Utica, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utica College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Utica, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s critical infrastructure protection degrees to 129 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Utica College Critical Infrastructure Protection Report

2

Robert Morris University
Moon Township, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Robert Morris University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 35 masters’s critical infrastructure protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full RMU Critical Infrastructure Protection Report

3

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#14 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 79 masters’s critical infrastructure protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Critical Infrastructure Protection at George Washington University

• Most Focused Master’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.