2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the New England region, there were 241 critical infrastructure protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 219 critical infrastructure protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Infrastructure Protection in the New England Region

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Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern New Hampshire University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the New England Region list. Manchester, New Hampshire is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s critical infrastructure protection degrees to 201 students in 2020-2021.

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Infrastructure Protection Major in the New England Region. UNH is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 18 masters’s critical infrastructure protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Critical Infrastructure Protection at UNH

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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.