2025 Best Security Science and Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
security science and technology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #86 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 10 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for security science and technology students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 547 master's degrees in security science and technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Security Science and Technology School for Your Master's Degree
The security science and technology master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality security science and technology program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on security science and technology students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other security science and technology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt security science and technology students go into to obtain their master'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 security science and technology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for security science and technology students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Security Science and Technology Schools
The security science and technology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Security Science and Technology Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
