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2023 Best Value Homeland Security Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$48,824 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,106 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Homeland Security Undergraduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 71 degrees and certificates were awarded to homeland security students who went to a Missouri college or university. This makes it the #139 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Homeland Security Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Missouri to see which undergraduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for homeland security students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Homeland Security Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for homeland security majors pursuing a undergraduate certificate.

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Homeland Security

Our 2023 rankings named Missouri Southern State University the best value school in Missouri for homeland security students working on their undergraduate certificate. Missouri Southern is a small public school located in the small city of Joplin.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Missouri Southern are $7,762 a year.

Full Homeland Security at Missouri Southern State University Report

#2

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, MO

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Homeland Security Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list. Located in the large city of Saint Louis, SLU is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

SLU undergraduate students pay an average of $48,824 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

SLU also made our Best Homeland Security Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list, coming in at #4.

Read full report on Homeland Security at Saint Louis University

Best Value Homeland Security Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Homeland Security Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 58
Kansas 27
Iowa 105
Nebraska 69
North Dakota 21

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections 113,121
Fire Protection 13,766
Security Science and Technology 6,888
Other Homeland Security 1,695

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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