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2023 Most Focused Colleges for Homeland Security in District of Columbia

1 Ranked Colleges

47 Degrees Awarded

$42,000 Avg Cost*

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across District of Columbia, there were 47 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

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 Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia homeland security students.

Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Homeland Security in District of Columbia

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

$50,575 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,410 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in District of Columbia. American University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 47 ’s homeland security 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

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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.

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