2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 3,012 people earned their degree in homeland security, making the major the 258th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 441 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 4 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 Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in the Plains States Region

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Waldorf University
Forest City, Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Waldorf University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Plains States Region. Forest City, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s homeland security degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Homeland Security at Waldorf University

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Wichita State University
Wichita, Kansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wichita State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Plains States Region list. WSU is a fairly large public school situated in Wichita, Kansas. It awarded 3 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WSU Homeland Security Report

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Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Capella University landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Homeland Security at Capella University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security

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.