2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in the New England Region
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Homeland Security is the 258th most popular major in the country with 3,012 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 75 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in homeland security. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their homeland security program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree homeland security students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in the New England Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire at Manchester landed the #1 spot on the list. University of New Hampshire at Manchester is a public institution located in Manchester, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full University of New Hampshire at Manchester Homeland Security Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. UNH is a fairly large school located in Durham, New Hampshire that handed out 29 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Homeland Security at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Husson University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s homeland security students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%.
Read full report on Homeland Security at Husson University
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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
- *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.
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