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Accomplishing Your Career Goals Starts Here
The online homeland security graduate degree and certificate programs offered by Penn State World Campus can equip you with the foundational knowledge and practical skills needed to thrive in the homeland security field in both the public and private sectors, preparing you to navigate American public institutions, execute crisis response strategies, and assess security threats.
Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security
Understand the impact of threats, violence, and terror, and learn about the policies that contribute to national safety and security. This program lets you choose to focus your learning on business or international affairs. 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 any extra courses.
Homeland Security Graduate Certificate
Learn to analyze and critique the homeland security policies, strategies, and organizations that strive to keep the nation safe. Understand the roles and shared responsibilities of key agencies and partners from federal, state, and local governments, as well as from the private sector. This graduate certificate is a great stand-alone credential to help create immediate opportunities in your career and can also be a 12-credit head start toward a full master's degree.
Customize Your Homeland Security Education
Take an all-hazards approach to homeland security and gain knowledge and skills in security strategies, legislation, and administration. By choosing from specialized courses in international affairs, public administration, threat analysis, and more, you can tailor your education to match your career goals. The programs also connect you to a vast alumni network, which can help you build a career.
Prepare to Address Modern Threats
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
We embedded the homeland security graduate certificate directly into the master’s degree program, so you can earn them both in less time and with less expense than earning them separately. You can:
- begin in the master’s program and earn the certificate along the way
- start with the certificate and count earned credits toward your degree, should you apply and be accepted into the master’s program
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.
