2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major

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Terrorism & Counterterrorism Operations is the 1050th most popular major in the country with 213 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 terrorism and counterterrorism operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in terrorism and counterterrorism operations. That schools that top this list have a program in terrorism and counterterrorism operations in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Terrorism & Counterterrorism Operations

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Nichols College
Dudley, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nichols College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major. Nichols is a small school located in Dudley, Massachusetts that handed out 15 masters’s terrorism and counterterrorism operations degrees in 2020-2021.

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Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naval Postgraduate School. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major. Naval Postgraduate School is a small school located in Monterey, California that handed out 10 masters’s terrorism and counterterrorism operations degrees in 2020-2021.

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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

#9 overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johns Hopkins University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations Major. Johns Hopkins University is located in Baltimore, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s terrorism and counterterrorism operations degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

• *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.