2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Wildl&/Forest Firefighting & Investigation in California

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation Schools for an Associate in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 41 people earned their degree in wildland/forest firefighting and investigation, making the major the 1140th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 14 wildland/forest firefighting and investigation graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 wildland/forest firefighting and investigation graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,451 and $19,634 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent wildland/forest firefighting and investigation programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the wildland/forest firefighting and investigation program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation Schools for an Associate in California” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation Schools for an Associate in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california associate degree wildland/forest firefighting and investigation students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Wildl&/Forest Firefighting & Investigation in California

#1

Rio Hondo College

Whittier, California

#1 in overall quality

$5,487 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation Schools for an Associate in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Rio Hondo College landed the #1 spot on the list. RHCCD is a fairly large public school situated in Whittier, California. It awarded 4 associates’s wildland/forest firefighting and investigation degrees in 2019-2020.

RHCCD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Wildl&/Forest Firefighting & Investigation Associate Degree Schools in California” list. The estimated yearly cost for Rio Hondo College is $5,487 for California Associate Degree Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation students.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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