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2023 Best Value Homeland Security Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$32,191 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,156 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Homeland Security School for You

Homeland Security is the #73 most popular major in the country with 2,759 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Homeland Security Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for homeland security students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Homeland Security Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Homeland Security Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Homeland Security

$32,280 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Benedictine University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for homeland security students. Located in the large suburb of Lisle, Benedictine U is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Benedictine U are $32,280 a year.

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$32,101 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best homeland security schools in the Great Lakes Region . IUPUI is a very large public school located in the large city of Indianapolis.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at IUPUI are $32,101 per year.

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Best Homeland Security Colleges by State

Explore the best homeland security schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 1
Illinois 134
Ohio 0
Indiana 7

One of 4 majors within the area of study, homeland security has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Homeland Security

Related Major Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections 7,783
Security Science and Technology 1,875
Other Homeland Security 456
Fire Protection 172

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

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