2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Nebraska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Nebraska for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Nebraska, there were 13 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,683 and $28,650 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,713 and $18,510 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Nebraska for an Associate” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fire protection. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in fire protection.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Nebraska for an Associate

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

Top 3 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Nebraska

1

Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, Nebraska

#8 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Nebraska for an Associate list. This fairly large school is located in Omaha, Nebraska, and it awarded 9 associates’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fire Protection at MCC

2

Southeast Community College Area
Lincoln, Nebraska

#13 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Community College Area. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Nebraska for an Associate list. Southeast Community College Area is a medium-sized school located in Lincoln, Nebraska that handed out 3 associates’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fire Protection at Southeast Community College Area

3

Mid-Plains Community College
North Platte, Nebraska

#19 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Nebraska for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Mid-Plains Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. North Platte, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s fire protection degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fire Protection at Mid-Plains Community College

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the Plains States Region
• Most Popular Associate 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.