2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Missouri for Homeland Security for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
49
Degrees Awarded
$41,122
Avg Salary
With all of the options veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Missouri for Homeland Security for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Homeland Security is the 117th most popular major in the country with 7,140 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, homeland security graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,213 and had an average of $28,747 in loans still to pay off.
Across Missouri, there were 164 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,122 and $32,183 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 homeland security graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,023 and $28,243 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent homeland security programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the homeland security program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Missouri for Homeland Security for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Missouri for Homeland Security for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Missouri for Homeland Security for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 1 Best Homeland Security Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Missouri
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in Missouri for Homeland Security for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Missouri landed the #1 spot on the list. Warrensburg, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s homeland security degrees to 28 students in 2020-2021.
UCM also made our “Best Homeland Security Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, UCM supports 9,959 students, and 9 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 10 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,238. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UCM does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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