Consistent with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) goals for its Centers of Excellence, START is dedicated to training and mentoring a new generation of scholars and analysts capable of examining questions related to the behavior of terrorists and terrorist groups and to the issue of how societies can best prepare for dealing with a terrorist threat or responding to a terrorist attack.
START emphasizes a variety of approaches to education from traditional undergraduate courses at the University of Maryland campus, to fully online synchronous graduate courses, to courses abroad at Macquarie University in Sydney. Educational opportunities exist for all types of learners at the undergraduate and graduate level and as well as for the non-degree seeking student or professional. START also seeks to assist in the continual development of homeland security and terrorism studies education at all colleges and universities through teaching tools and funding for course development.
