by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Homeland Security is the 117th most popular major in the country with 7,140 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, homeland security graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,213 and had an average of $28,747 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 431 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,156 and $21,305 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 114 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in homeland security. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in homeland security.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Notre Dame College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region list. NDC is a small school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 0 masters’s homeland security degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adler University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region. Adler is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s homeland security degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aurora University landed the #1 spot on the list. Aurora University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Aurora, Illinois. It awarded 0 masters’s homeland security degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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