2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Terrorism & Counterterrorism Operations

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 213 people earned their degree in terrorism and counterterrorism operations, making the major the 1050th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 terrorism and counterterrorism operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in terrorism and counterterrorism operations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their terrorism and counterterrorism operations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Terrorism & Counterterrorism Operations

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Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global
Marion, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global landed the #2 spot on the list. IWU is a fairly large school located in Marion, Indiana that handed out 1 bachelors’s terrorism and counterterrorism operations degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full IWU Terrorism & Counterterrorism Operations Report

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.