Homeland Security is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #117 most popular degree program in the country. 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 Schools in Virginia ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 156 degrees in homeland security to qualified students.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Homeland Security Schools in Virginia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the homeland security degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student pursuing a degree in homeland security has to check out George Mason University. Located in the suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a very large student population.
Degree recipients from the homeland security major at George Mason University make $70,867 above the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
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).