2022 Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee

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 “Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 6,303 people earned their degree in homeland security, making the major the 130th most popular in the United States. 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 Tennessee, there were 32 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $24,876 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality homeland security programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee bachelor’s degree homeland security students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in Tennessee

#1

Bethel University

McKenzie, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$15,701 Average Net Price

$59,485 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Bethel University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in McKenzie, Tennessee, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2019-2020.

Bethel also took the #1 spot in our “Best Homeland Security Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $15,701 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Homeland Security students per year to attend Bethel.

Read full report on Homeland Security at Bethel

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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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