The Higher School of Security and Economics is a successor of College of Economics and Administration (CEA) in Plovdiv. In 2006, CEA received institutional accreditation from the National Agency for Assessment and Accreditation (NEAA). In the same year, the College became the first higher school in Plovdiv, which was awarded the Quality Certificate EN ISO 9001:2000. By the decision of the 43 rd National Assembly of 21 st May 2015, the College is transformed into a specialized four-year Higher School of Security and Economics (HSSE), which has the right to train students in the educational qualification degrees ”Bachelor“, ”Master“ and ”Doctor“.

The students of HSSE are trained in three professional fields: ”National Security“, ”Economics“ and ”Administration and Management“, as the curricula being updated and fully in line with the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Science as well as with the requirements of the employers. All majors are extremely attractive and the demand for graduate experts from private companies and state institutions is very high. The knowledge and skills that students acquire at HSSE are key to their future careers and ensure seamless employment and even the start-up of their own businesses.

Higher School of Security and Economics develops fundamental scientifically and practically applied research according to the accredited fields. The studies are aimed at creating new knowledge, developing training and upgrading existing educational products. The result of these intense efforts is expressed in publications in world-famous specialized publications in the US, UK, France, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Serbia, Macedonia and others. Through them, the valuable theoretical issues, questions and dilemmas in different areas of knowledge developed by HSSE lecturers reach tens of millions of consumers worldwide.

Higher School of Security and Economics is a desirable and preferred partner and has contracts with more than 30 national  and  foreign universities. HSSE has cooperation agreements with a number of reputable international and Bulgarian organizations, with state institutions and leading private companies, and it is a full member of branch structures, and so on.