2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in the Rocky Mountains Region

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In 2021-2022, 6,812 people earned their degree in homeland security, making the major the 117th most popular in the United States. In , homeland security graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $52,453 and had an average of $29,191 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 75 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,192 and $41,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,140 and $21,982 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in homeland security. That schools that top this list have a program in homeland security in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Homeland Security in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Idaho State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Idaho State University is a fairly large school located in Pocatello, Idaho that handed out 15 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Homeland Security at Idaho State University

2

Arapahoe Community College
Littleton, Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arapahoe Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Arapahoe Community College is a fairly large school located in Littleton, Colorado that handed out 4 bachelors’s homeland security degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Homeland Security at Arapahoe Community College

3

Pikes Peak Community College
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Homeland Security Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pikes Peak Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Colorado Springs, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s homeland security degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Pikes Peak Community College Homeland Security Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.