Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management

A program focusing on the application of the incident command system model to formulating and implementing effective response to natural and man-made disasters. Includes instruction in contingency planning, hazard and risk assessment, joint operations, law and ethics, emergency response and recovery, event mitigation, emergency rescue and medical operations, incident command, terrorism and national security issues, law enforcement, relief administration, volunteer and citizen coordination, public relations and applications to specific types of incidents.

For all the 2,406 degrees granted in Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management per year, the majority of them are Bachelors degree. Of the 144 students graduating with degrees at the Postbaccalaureate certificate level in the US, 51% percent identify as women and 49% percent identify as men. While students at schools all over the US study Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management, West Virginia has the most graduates. The average annual income for a graduate with a bachelor's degree in Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management is $41,340.