2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in Virginia (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Homeland Security is the 130th most popular major in the country with 6,303 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, homeland security graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $48,439 and had an average of $30,424 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 127 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,150 and $41,138 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent homeland security programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the homeland security program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree homeland security students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in Virginia (With Aid)

#1

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$37,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$103,078 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s homeland security students in 2019-2020.

GMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Homeland Security Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at GMU are $37,410, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Homeland Security at GMU

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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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