2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Maine for an Associate

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 “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Maine for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Maine, there were 28 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,683 and $25,299 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,263 and $19,245 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Maine for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fire protection. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular fire protection programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Maine for an Associate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Maine

1

Southern Maine Community College
South Portland, Maine

#16 overall quality in Maine

$11,898 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Maine for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Maine Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. South Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s fire protection degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.

Full SMCC Fire Protection Report

2

Eastern Maine Community College
Bangor, Maine

#18 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Maine Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Maine for an Associate list. Located in Bangor, Maine, this small public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s fire protection students in 2020-2021.

Full Eastern Maine 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.