&quot;<i>Four categories of institutions of higher education dominate the VICE News list of the 100 most militarized universities in America:</i><p>1. &quot;<i>schools whose students attain their degrees predominantly online;</i>&quot;<p>This is very unsurprising. Online education is very attractive for people in, for example, the military. Plus, many government service jobs just require a degree, not that it be from a recognizable school; in general, as is often mentioned here on HN, experience beats education and experience in this case usually means the military or prior government jobs.<p>2. &quot;<i>schools that are heavily involved in research and development for defense, intelligence, and security clients;</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sensing that this is actually a relative minority on the list (although most of the recognizable names fall into it). There is considerable overlap between this category and the next two.<p>3. &quot;<i>schools in the Washington, DC area;</i>&quot;<p>Yes, obviously, plus schools close to large military bases (Cochise College, Fort Huachuaca; Central Texas College, Fort Hood).<p>4. &quot;<i>and schools that are newly focused on homeland security.</i>&quot;<p>And I&#x27;m not entirely sure what the heck that&#x27;s supposed to mean. There&#x27;s money in &quot;homeland security&quot; much like there was money in nuclear weapon design at one time.<p>I suspect this article is an attempt to work up heat about a &quot;education&#x2F;intelligence community&quot; doohicky to replace the venerable ol&#x27; military&#x2F;industrial complex. And I think it&#x27;s a failure, since what I think they&#x27;ve discovered is akin to &quot;Google hires a lot of Stanford grads&quot;.