2023 Most Popular Colleges for Fire Protection in Louisiana

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Louisiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Louisiana, there were 31 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,954 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Louisiana” 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.

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Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana fire protection students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Fire Protection in Louisiana

1

Louisiana State University - Eunice
Eunice, Louisiana

$43,590 Average Early-Career Earnings

$14,714 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University - Eunice landed the #1 spot on the list. Louisiana State University - Eunice is a small public school situated in Eunice, Louisiana. It awarded 13 ’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fire Protection at LSU Eunice

2

Delgado Community College
New Orleans, Louisiana

#14 overall quality in Louisiana

$33,650 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,117 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Fire Protection Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Delgado Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 18 ’s fire protection degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Fire Protection at Delgado Community 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.