2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Oregon

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

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 Oregon, there were 153 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 39 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,095 and $25,983 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in fire protection. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in fire protection.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in Oregon

1

Eastern Oregon University
La Grande, Oregon

#18 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Oregon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s list. Eastern Oregon University is located in La Grande, Oregon and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 39 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

Full Eastern Oregon University Fire Protection Report

2

Western Oregon University
Monmouth, Oregon

#7 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Oregon University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Oregon for a Bachelor’s list. Western Oregon State College is a small school located in Monmouth, Oregon that handed out 0 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Western Oregon State College

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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.