2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for an Associate in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Fire Protection Schools for an Associate in Maine” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Fire Protection is the 114th most popular major in the country with 13,176 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, fire protection graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,404 and had an average of $24,230 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maine, there were 23 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,657 and $30,258 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,425 and $17,736 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fire protection 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 protection 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 Protection Schools for an Associate in Maine” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Fire Protection Schools for an Associate in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine associate degree fire protection students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Maine

#1

Southern Maine Community College

South Portland, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$10,647 Average Net Price

$48,823 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Fire Protection Schools for an Associate in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Maine Community College is a public institution located in South Portland, Maine. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SMCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southern Maine Community College is $10,647 for maine associate degree fire protection students.

Read more about Fire Protection at SMCC

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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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