2025 Best Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

a bachelor's degree in homeland security is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #109 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 54 bachelor's degrees in homeland security during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 - How many other homeland security students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 bachelor'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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for homeland security students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Homeland Security Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Homeland Security in Pennsylvania

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for homeland security students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Bachelor's in Homeland Security

1

DeSales University
Center Valley, PA

11 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat DeSales University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in homeland security. Located in the suburb of Center Valley, DeSales is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in homeland security from DeSales University

2

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Slippery Rock, PA

22 Annual Graduates

$31,685 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in homeland security needs to check out Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Located in the town of Slippery Rock, SRU is a public university with a medium-sized student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the homeland security program earn about $31,685 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in homeland security from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Best Homeland Security Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	447
New Jersey	193	140
District of Columbia	126	2

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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	33
Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management	21

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	1,999
Security Science and Technology	252
Other Homeland Security	35

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.