2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region” 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 the Plains States region, there were 440 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,242 and $26,417 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 72 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the Plains States Region

1

Waldorf University
Forest City, Iowa

$74,071 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,283 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Waldorf University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region list. Waldorf is located in Forest City, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 70 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Fire Protection at Waldorf University

2

College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of the Ozarks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Point Lookout, Missouri, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Hard Work U Fire Protection Report

3

Lindenwood University
Saint Charles, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lindenwood University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Plains States Region list. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized school located in Saint Charles, Missouri that handed out 0 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Lindenwood University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection

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.