2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Security Science and Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 6,888 people earned their degree in security science and technology, making the major the 123rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, security science and technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,938 security science and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 657 security science and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in security science and technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their security science and technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Security Science and Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Excelsior College
Albany, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Excelsior College landed the #1 spot on the list. Excelsior College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Albany, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 87 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Excelsior College Security Science and Technology Report

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Chestnut Hill College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Chestnut Hill College landed the #2 spot on the list. Chestnut Hill College is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s security science and technology degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Security Science and Technology at CHC

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Security Science and Technology

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.