Like opening outwards instead of inwards, the frame would face the opposite way and be (I assume) harder to break inwards
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Which way the door faces does affect its overall strength, but realistically this is pretty irrelevant for anything but a secure door in something like a prison.
Speaking as someone with experience in installing secure doors, a common door lock (mag lock, or key lock) has a breaking force less than 75 foot pounds, meaning that you can easily kick the door in.
A suitably motivated person with a universal key (an axe) can open a wooden door in a few seconds.
SWAT teams will often carry Sledgehammers or a dynamic hammer (a large sand filled deadblow) and with one swing can blow a normal door off its hinges like it was paper. Similarly they can carry shotguns with Haton rounds (plastic slugs) that can blow even an armored door off its hinges in a few seconds.
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