2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Louisiana

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Louisiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 13,766 people earned their degree in fire protection, making the major the 118th most popular in the United States. 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 Louisiana, there were 31 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,954 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,648 and $22,451 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in fire protection. That schools that top this list have a program in fire protection in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

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

1

Louisiana State University - Eunice
Eunice, Louisiana

$52,954 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University - Eunice. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Louisiana list. Located in Eunice, Louisiana, this small public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified associates’s fire protection students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Fire Protection at LSU Eunice

2

Delgado Community College
New Orleans, Louisiana

#14 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delgado Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Louisiana. Delgado Community College is a fairly large public school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 6 associates’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Delgado Community College 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

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.