2025 Best Homeland Security Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
227Homeland Security Degrees Awarded
$63,805Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in homeland security, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #117 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.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Homeland Security Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 227 degrees in homeland security annually.
The homeland security program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Homeland Security rankings. We derive our Best Overall Homeland Security School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Homeland Security in the Great Lakes Region
The schools below may not offer all types of homeland security degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Homeland Security
Union Institute & University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in homeland security. Located in the large city of Cincinnati, Union is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #124 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Union is a great university overall.
There were approximately 62 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at Union in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the homeland security major at Union Institute & University earn $101,468 more than the average college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Lake Superior State University is a good choice for students interested in a degree in homeland security. Lake Superior State University is a small public university located in the remote town of Sault Ste Marie. This university ranks 37th out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 15 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at Lake Superior State University in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Akron Main Campus is a great decision for students interested in a degree in homeland security. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Akron. This university ranks 23rd out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were approximately 11 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at University of Akron Main Campus in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in homeland security has to check out Oakland University. Oakland is a large public university located in the suburb of Rochester Hills. A Best Colleges rank of #443 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Oakland is a great university overall.
There were roughly 16 homeland security students who graduated with this degree at Oakland in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The homeland security program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Homeland Security rankings. We derive our Best Overall Homeland Security School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
