15+ Graduate Programs
Align your online education with your aspirations by choosing from multiple certificates and degrees.
25+ Years of Experience
Penn State World Campus has been a leader in online education for more than two decades. Grounded in a tradition of quality since 1855, an education from Penn State is well-respected by many employers.
Find Your Future in Our Homeland Security Graduate Portfolio
Penn State World Campus offers a comprehensive portfolio of graduate programs in homeland security rooted in an all-hazards approach to preparing its graduates to address modern challenges. By choosing from six master’s degree options and eight graduate certificates, students can customize their educational path to align with their personal interests and professional goals. Programs from our portfolio can prepare students to tackle diverse and critical issues including public health crises, natural disasters, national security, cyber threats, and agricultural biosecurity.
Analyze and critique the homeland security policies, strategies, and organizations that strive to keep the nation safe from hazards. Penn State offers eight graduate certificates with specific focus areas, all designed with the intention of contributing to the safety of the nation. A graduate certificate is a great credential to help create immediate opportunities in your career and can also be a 12- to 15-credit head start toward a master's degree.
Explore Your Certificate Options
Understand the impact of threats, violence, and terror, and learn about the policies and approaches that contribute to national safety and security. Penn State offers six graduate degrees designed to focus on specializations within homeland security to address your personal interests and professional goals. You can also add a respected credential to your résumé and show progress toward your degree by earning a graduate certificate along the way — without taking extra courses.
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Customize Your Homeland Security Education
Graduates of these programs can find themselves well-prepared to serve in upper-level roles in federal and state agencies, the military, and the private sector — providing vital leadership in areas like crisis response, supply chain management, transportation security, currency stability, and international business. The curriculum emphasizes solving practical problems, assessing threats, applying leadership principles, practicing ethics, and fostering effective communication.
Multiple Credentials for Improved ROI
Many of our graduate certificates are embedded into master’s degree programs, a unique structure that allows you to earn multiple credentials in less time and with less expense than earning them separately. Pick your path.
- Begin in a master’s program and add one or more skill-based certificates along the way.
- Start with a certificate with the option to step up to a degree by taking advantage of our accelerated admission option.
Maximum Flexibility — Designed for Working Adults
- Online platform allows you to study whenever, wherever
- Complete weekly assignments at your own pace
- Choose from multiple start dates each year
- Freedom to take a semester off
I am greatly enjoying the content and level of challenge in the courses. Last semester, World Campus made the entire process — from registration for classes to the final exam — extremely easy while I was deployed.
