Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting School for Your Doctor's Degree

The homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor'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, law enforcement & firefighting students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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, law enforcement & firefighting students go into to obtain their doctor'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, law enforcement & firefighting related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Regrettably , we don't have adequate facts to produce a ranking of the quality schools for homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting in the Middle Atlantic Region . This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting ranking.

Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Colleges by State

Explore the best homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	30	11
Pennsylvania	29	15
New Jersey	28	3
District of Columbia	24	2
Delaware	21	6

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Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	52
Homeland Security	9
Other Homeland Security	3

Most Popular Majors Related to Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Legal Professions	8,464

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Barry Bahler. More about our data sources and methodologies.