2024 Best Critical Infrastructure Protection Master's Degree Schools
5
Colleges in the United States
582
Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
critical infrastructure protection, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #215 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for critical infrastructure protection students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 582 master's degrees in critical infrastructure protection during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Critical Infrastructure Protection School for Your Master's Degree
The critical infrastructure protection master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on critical infrastructure protection students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of critical infrastructure protection students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized critical infrastructure protection related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for critical infrastructure protection students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Critical Infrastructure Protection Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.