2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Fire Protection

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 110 people earned their degree in other fire protection, making the major the 1005th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 other fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other fire protection. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other fire protection programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other fire protection program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Fire Protection

#1

Sussex County Community College

Newton, New Jersey

#2 in overall quality

$13,089 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sussex County Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate list. Sussex County Community College is a public institution located in Newton, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Sussex County Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,089 for associate degree other fire protection students per year to attend Sussex County Community College.

Read more about Other Fire Protection at Sussex County Community College

#2

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$12,995 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Other Fire Protection Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #2 spot on the list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s other fire protection degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

UAA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for UAA is $12,995 for associate degree other fire protection students.

Read more about Other Fire Protection at UAA

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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