Best Security Science and Technology Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Security Science and Technology Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

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

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 doctor'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 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 security science and technology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for security science and technology students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Sad to say, we do not have enough facts to create a ranking of the top quality colleges for security science and technology in the United States. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer security science and technology and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Security Science and Technology by Region

View the Best Security Science and Technology Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Security Science and Technology

Security Science and Technology is one of 4 different types of Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting programs to choose from.

Security Science and Technology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Forensic Science and Technology	33
Criminalistics and Criminal Science	6

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	276
Homeland Security	44
Fire Protection	8
Other Homeland Security	3

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.