2023 Most Focused Colleges for Fire Protection in Alabama

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 Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Alabama, there were 1,052 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,199 and $15,803 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Fire Protection in Alabama

1

Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, Alabama

#21 overall quality in Alabama

$55,041 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,091 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama list. Columbia Southern University is located in Orange Beach, Alabama and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1,037 ’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Columbia Southern University

2

Chattahoochee Valley Community College
Phenix City, Alabama

$60,027 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,377 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Chattahoochee Valley Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. CVCC is located in Phenix City, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 ’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Fire Protection at CVCC

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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.