2022 Best Value Fire Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Fire Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 7,726 people earned their degree in fire science, making the major the 246th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,703 fire science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 fire science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fire science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the fire science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Fire Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Fire Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fire Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Science in the Southeast Region

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$10,368 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia Southern University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Fire Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Columbia Southern University is a fairly large private for-profit school situated in Orange Beach, Alabama. It awarded 15 bachelors’s fire science degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia Southern University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Fire Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $10,368 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Fire Science students per year to attend Columbia Southern University.

Read full report on Fire Science at Columbia Southern University

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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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