Critical Infrastructure Protection at George Mason University

If you plan to study critical infrastructure protection, take a look at what George Mason University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 38,541 students attend the school each year.

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

GMU Critical Infrastructure Protection Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Critical Infrastructure Protection

GMU Critical Infrastructure Protection Rankings

The critical infrastructure protection major at GMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Critical Infrastructure Protection. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Critical Infrastructure Protection Student Demographics at GMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the critical infrastructure protection majors at George Mason University.

GMU Critical Infrastructure Protection Bachelor’s Program

The critical infrastructure protection program at GMU awarded 84 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 74% of these degrees went to men with the other 26% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% more racial-ethnic minorities in its critical infrastructure protection bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor's in critical infrastructure protection.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	39
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

GMU also has a doctoral program available in critical infrastructure protection. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Critical Infrastructure Protection Grads May Go Into

A degree in critical infrastructure protection can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Managers	17,280	$134,500
Police and Detective Supervisors	3,000	$94,120
Emergency Management Directors	350	$89,580

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 Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.