2025 Best Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

Homeland Security is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #109 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 44 bachelor's degrees in homeland security to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor'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 - 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 schools for homeland security students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Homeland Security Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Homeland Security Bachelor's Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top North Carolina Schools for a Bachelor's in Homeland Security

1

Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, NC

18 Annual Graduates

Elizabeth City State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in homeland security. ECSU is a small public university located in the distant town of Elizabeth City.More information about a bachelor’s in homeland security from Elizabeth City State University

2

Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC

26 Annual Graduates

$40,294 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in homeland security needs to look into Campbell University. Located in the town of Buies Creek, Campbell is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.

After graduation, homeland security bachelor's recipients typically make about $40,294 in their early careers.

More information about a bachelor’s in homeland security from Campbell University

Best Homeland Security Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	151
Georgia	224	12
Tennessee	220	38
Virginia	213	92
South Carolina	195	32
Kentucky	187	59
Alabama	184	107
Louisiana	171	1
Arkansas	167	39
West Virginia	147	559

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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	36
Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management	8

Majors Similar to Homeland Security

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	1,692
Fire Protection	58
Security Science and Technology	20

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.