2025 Best Homeland Security Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey

a master's degree in homeland security is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #64 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Homeland Security Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 63 master's degrees in homeland security during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to homeland security students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of homeland security students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt homeland security students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized homeland security related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for homeland security students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Homeland Security Schools

The homeland security school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Homeland Security Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Homeland Security in New Jersey

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in homeland security.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Master's in Homeland Security

1

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
Teaneck, NJ

30 Annual Graduates

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in homeland security. FDU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Teaneck.More information about a master’s in homeland security from Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus

2

Thomas Edison State University
Trenton, NJ

10 Annual Graduates

Thomas Edison State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in homeland security. TESU is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Trenton.More information about a master’s in homeland security from Thomas Edison State University

Best Homeland Security Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Homeland Security Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	202
Pennsylvania	248	252
Maryland	193	8
District of Columbia	154	195
Delaware	109	28

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Rankings in Majors Related to Homeland Security

One of 4 majors within the Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting area of study, Homeland Security has other similar majors worth exploring.

Homeland Security Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Homeland Security	46
Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management	11
Other Homeland Security	5
Terrorism & Counterterrorism Operations	1

Majors Similar to Homeland Security

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	136
Security Science and Technology	4

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.