Homeland Security at Pikes Peak Community College

If you are interested in studying homeland security, you may want to check out the program at Pikes Peak Community College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

PPCC is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and approximately 12,506 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.

PPCC Homeland Security Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Homeland Security

Online Classes Are Available at PPCC

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, PPCC does offer online courses in homeland security for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

PPCC Homeland Security Rankings

The homeland security major at PPCC 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 PPCC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the homeland security majors at Pikes Peak Community College.

PPCC Homeland Security Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students earned a bachelor's degree in homeland security from PPCC. About 80% of these graduates were women and the other 20% were men. The typical homeland security bachelor's degree program is made up of only 31% women. So female students are more repesented at PPCC since its program graduates 49% more women than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in homeland security at PPCC 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 Pikes Peak Community College with a bachelor's in homeland security.

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

PPCC 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 Pikes Peak Community College. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Pikes Peak Community College. 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 CO, the home state for Pikes Peak Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Managers	8,940	$138,490
Protective Service Worker Supervisors	1,630	$46,840
Police and Detective Supervisors	1,320	$103,500
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	430	$62,040
Professors	410	$63,920

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.