2022 Best Value Security Science and Technology Schools for a Master’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Security Science and Technology Schools for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 6,193 security science and technology students received their degree, making the major the most popular in the country.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1,491 security science and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality security science and technology 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 security science and technology 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Security Science and Technology Schools for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Security Science and Technology Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree security science and technology students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Security Science and Technology

#1

Excelsior University

Albany, New York

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Excelsior University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Security Science and Technology Schools for a Master’s list. Excelsior University is a large school located in Albany, New York that handed out 43 masters’s security science and technology degrees in 2019-2020.

Excelsior University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Security Science and Technology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking.

Full Excelsior University Security Science and Technology 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

• *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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