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2023 Best Value Law Enforcement & Firefighting Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$8,743 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,234 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Graduate Certificate School for You

With 1,017 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting is the #15 most popular major in Oklahoma.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Law Enforcement & Firefighting Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Oklahoma to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Oklahoma Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Law Enforcement & Firefighting

Our 2023 rankings named University of Oklahoma Norman Campus the best value school in Oklahoma for homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting students working on their graduate certificate. University of Oklahoma is a very large public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at University of Oklahoma are $8,814 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, University of Oklahoma is ranked #4 for overall quality for homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting in Oklahoma.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting schools in Oklahoma. Located in the town of Stillwater, OSU is a public college with a very large student population.

OSU graduate students pay an average of $8,672 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

OSU also took the #1 spot in our Best Law Enforcement & Firefighting Graduate Certificate Schools in Oklahoma rankings.

Full Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus Report

Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Schools in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 3,897
Texas 8,278
New Mexico 630

Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections 113,121
Fire Protection 13,766
Homeland Security 7,140
Security Science and Technology 6,888
Other Homeland Security 1,695

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 98,583
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 73,813
Legal Professions 61,055
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 4,477

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Barry Bahler.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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