Homeland Security at Excelsior College

If you are interested in studying homeland security, you may want to check out the program at Excelsior College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Excelsior College is located in Albany, New York and has a total student population of 21,974. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 33 students received their master's degree in homeland security.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Homeland Security section at the bottom of this page.

Excelsior College Homeland Security Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Homeland Security

Online Classes Are Available at Excelsior College

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Excelsior College does offer online courses in homeland security for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Excelsior College Homeland Security Rankings

Homeland Security Student Demographics at Excelsior College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the homeland security majors at Excelsior College.

Excelsior College Homeland Security Master’s Program

Of the 33 students who earned a master's degree in Homeland Security from Excelsior College in 2020-2021, 82% were men and 18% were women.

Of the students who received a homeland security master's degree from Excelsior College, 55% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the homeland security master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 45% of degree recipients. That is 11% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Excelsior College with a master's in homeland security.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Criminal Justice & Corrections
• Security Science and Technology

Careers That Homeland Security Grads May Go Into

A degree in homeland security can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Excelsior College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Police and Detective Supervisors	12,650	$115,940
Protective Service Worker Supervisors	8,660	$63,570
Professors	6,440	$112,000
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	1,450	$62,080

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Snowy Brooklyn College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.