2024 Best Fire Protection Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in fire protection. It is ranked #219 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for fire protection students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 108 master's degrees in fire protection to qualified students.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to fire protection students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of fire protection students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt fire protection students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fire protection related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for fire protection students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Fire Protection Schools

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 Fire Protection Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Fire Protection in the Great Lakes Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in fire protection.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Fire Protection

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL

19 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in fire protection has to take a look at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in fire protection from Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Purdue University Global
West Lafayette, IN

$49,079 Median Starting Salary

Purdue University Global is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in fire protection. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue University Global is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the fire protection program report average early career income of $49,079.

More information about a master’s in fire protection from Purdue University Global

Best Fire Protection Colleges by State

Explore the best fire protection colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	221	19
Indiana	191	89

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Fire Protection Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting area of study, Fire Protection has other similar majors worth exploring.

Fire Protection Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Fire Services Administration	108

Majors Similar to Fire Protection

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	610
Homeland Security	114
Security Science and Technology	57
Other Homeland Security	44

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.