2022 Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,511 people earned their degree in homeland security, making the major the 265th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 281 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in homeland security. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great homeland security programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the homeland security program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree homeland security students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$12,543 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Wichita, Kansas, this fairly large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s homeland security students in 2019-2020.

WSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Homeland Security Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend WSU is $12,543 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Homeland Security students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#2

Waldorf University

Forest City, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$16,991 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Waldorf University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Homeland Security Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Waldorf is a small school located in Forest City, Iowa that handed out 21 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2019-2020.

Waldorf also took the #1 spot in our “Best Homeland Security Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Waldorf University is $16,991 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Homeland Security students whose families make $30-$48k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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