Homeland Security at Mercer University

If you plan to study homeland security, take a look at what Mercer University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Mercer is located in Macon, Georgia and has a total student population of 9,006.

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.

Mercer Homeland Security Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Homeland Security

Online Classes Are Available at Mercer

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Mercer offers distance education options for homeland security at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Mercer Homeland Security Rankings

The homeland security major at Mercer is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Homeland Security. 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.

Homeland Security Student Demographics at Mercer

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

Mercer Homeland Security Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 8 homeland security majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mercer. Of these graduates, 25% were men and 75% were women. The typical homeland security bachelor's degree program is made up of only 31% women. So female students are more repesented at Mercer since its program graduates 44% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% more racial-ethnic minorities in its homeland security bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Mercer also has a doctoral program available in homeland security. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Homeland Security

The following homeland security concentations are available at Mercer University. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Mercer University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

Related Majors

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 GA, the home state for Mercer University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Managers	14,480	$118,060
Police and Detective Supervisors	5,840	$66,680
Protective Service Worker Supervisors	1,930	$55,410
Emergency Management Directors	390	$73,090
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	130	$63,790

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 Korea2006 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.