If you plan on majoring in homeland security, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #258 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of homeland security. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 327 degrees in homeland security annually.
Your choice of homeland security school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Homeland Security School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Homeland Security Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of homeland security degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is difficult to beat Central Texas College if you wish to pursue a degree in homeland security. Central Texas College is a moderately-sized public college located in the suburb of Killeen. A Best Colleges rank of #960 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Central Texas College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 135 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at Central Texas College in the most recent year we have data available.
Sam Houston State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in homeland security. SHSU is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Huntsville. A Best Colleges rank of #480 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means SHSU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 53 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at SHSU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Angelo State University if you wish to pursue a degree in homeland security. Located in the small city of San Angelo, Angelo State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 82nd out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 45 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at Angelo State in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat The University of Texas at El Paso if you want to pursue a degree in homeland security. UTEP is a very large public university located in the large city of El Paso. This university ranks 49th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 12 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at UTEP in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of homeland security school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Homeland Security School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
