2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the Southwest region, there were 1,579 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,918 and $9,026 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the fire protection program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree fire protection students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

Stillwater, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$23,963 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 14 degrees to qualified masters’s fire protection students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OSU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Fire Protection Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus are $23,963, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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