2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Maine

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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 Maine, there were 28 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,683 and $25,299 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fire protection. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in fire protection.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Maine

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Maine

1

Southern Maine Community College
South Portland, Maine

#16 overall quality in Maine

$11,898 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Maine Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Maine. This medium-sized school is located in South Portland, Maine, and it awarded 23 associates’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fire Protection at SMCC

2

Eastern Maine Community College
Bangor, Maine

#18 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Maine Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Maine list. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified associates’s fire protection students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Eastern Maine Community College

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.