2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in Pennsylvania

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Homeland Security is the 265th most popular major in the country with 2,511 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 62 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality homeland security programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the homeland security program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in Pennsylvania

#1

DeSales University

Center Valley, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$28,309 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, DeSales University landed the #1 spot on the list. DeSales University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. It awarded 7 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2019-2020.

DeSales also made our “Best Homeland Security Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $28,309 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Homeland Security students per year to attend DeSales University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.6% 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%.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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