by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 191 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,337 and $28,650 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 51 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fire protection. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in fire protection.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey City University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s. This medium-sized school is located in Jersey City, New Jersey, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a fairly large school located in New York, New York that handed out 24 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Holy Family University landed the #3 spot on the list. Holy Family is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #4 spot on the list. The Graduate Center, CUNY is a medium-sized public school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 0 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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