2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in New York
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$43,142
Avg Salary
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in New York” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 New York, there were 81 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,142 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,555 and $23,635 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in New York” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fire protection. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their fire protection program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in New York
The colleges and universities below are the best for new york bachelor’s degree fire protection students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in New York
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, John Jay College of Criminal Justice landed the #1 spot on the list. John Jay is located in New York, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Fire Protection at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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
- *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.