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

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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 Southeast region, there were 2,008 security science and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 317 security science and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in security science and technology. That schools that top this list have a program in security science and technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Security Science and Technology in the Southeast Region

1

American National University
Salem, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American National University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Southeast Region list. American National University is a small private for-profit school situated in Salem, Virginia. It awarded 1 masters’s security science and technology degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Hampton University
Hampton, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hampton University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Hampton, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s security science and technology students in 2020-2021.

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3

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kennesaw State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Security Science and Technology Major in the Southeast Region list. Kennesaw, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s security science and technology degrees to 57 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Security Science and Technology at KSU Georgia

• 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.