Homeland Security at Northwest Missouri State University

If you are interested in studying homeland security, you may want to check out the program at Northwest Missouri State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Northwest is located in Maryville, Missouri and approximately 7,267 students attend the school each year.

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.

Northwest Homeland Security Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Homeland Security

Northwest Homeland Security Rankings

The homeland security major at Northwest 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 Northwest

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

Northwest Homeland Security Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 homeland security majors earned their bachelor's degree from Northwest. Of these graduates, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical homeland security bachelor's degree program is made up of only 31% women. So female students are more repesented at Northwest since its program graduates 19% more women than average.

About 93% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in homeland security at Northwest are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Northwest 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 Northwest Missouri State University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Northwest Missouri State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree 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 MO, the home state for Northwest Missouri State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MO	Average Salary in MO
Managers	3,980	$97,820
Police and Detective Supervisors	2,220	$78,750
Protective Service Worker Supervisors	1,180	$54,370
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	230	$85,710
Emergency Management Directors	170	$63,690

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 poster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.