Gain a new perspective on today’s security threats.
Master of Arts in Security and Intelligence Studies
Northeastern University’s Master of Arts in Security and Intelligence Studies helps you prepare to take a leadership role in the security field with our unique multi-organizational approach.
Our unique interdisciplinary approach merges security, law, politics, and constitutional rights to create well-rounded security leaders. You’ll be able to gain and hone skills in intelligence collection and dissemination, analysis, research, threat assessment, and evaluation of information and policy development while focusing on the importance of civil liberties in pursuing security in civil society.
You’ll learn from security experts, each with at least 20 years of teaching and security and intelligence experience. They’ll share their experiences as constitutional lawyers, White House advisors, CIA operatives, military intelligence officers, and more.
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Define your security career
Create the security career you want with three tracks to focus your degree on: strategic intelligence and analysis, homeland security and emergency management, or corporate security management. Plus, you’ll have a broad range of electives to choose from.
A unique approach to security
Our whole-of-government approach to security studies merges security leadership skills and an understanding of civil liberties. It’s designed to anticipate and lead responses to security threats in an ever-changing, challenging global environment.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.