2024 Best Value Colleges for Fire Protection in Iowa
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Ranked Colleges
158
Degrees Awarded
$15,000
Avg Net Price*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Fire Protection is the 118th most popular major in the country with 13,766 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, fire protection graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,963 and had an average of $19,479 in loans still to pay off.
Across Iowa, there were 158 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,505 and $26,888 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fire protection. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fire protection programs and cost less that 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Iowa” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Iowa
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Iowa.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Fire Protection in Iowa
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Des Moines Area Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Iowa. Ankeny, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s fire protection degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
DMACC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Fire Protection Schools in Iowa” list. It costs about $9,557 for Iowa Fire Protection students per year to attend Des Moines Area Community College.
Read full report on Fire Protection at DMACC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Waldorf University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Iowa. Forest City, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out ’s fire protection degrees to 110 students in 2020-2021.
Waldorf also made our “Best Fire Protection Schools in Iowa” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $20,541 for Iowa Fire Protection students per year to attend Waldorf University.
Full Waldorf Fire Protection Report
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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
- *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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