2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the New England Region

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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 New England region, there were 310 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,046 and $22,890 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region” 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree fire protection students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the New England Region

1

University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Haven landed the #1 spot on the list. University of New Haven is a medium-sized school located in West Haven, Connecticut that handed out 3 masters’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fire Protection at University of New Haven

2

Anna Maria College
Paxton, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Anna Maria College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Paxton, Massachusetts, and it awarded 74 masters’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fire Protection at Anna Maria

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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.