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Fire Protection at California State University - San Marcos

Fire Protection at California State University - San Marcos

What traits are you looking for in a fire protection school? To help you decide if California State University - San Marcos is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's fire protection program.

CSUSM is located in San Marcos, California and approximately 16,367 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Fire Protection section at the bottom of this page.

CSUSM Fire Protection Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Fire Protection

CSUSM Fire Protection Rankings

The fire protection major at CSUSM is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Fire Protection. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Fire Protection Student Demographics at CSUSM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fire protection majors at California State University - San Marcos.

CSUSM Fire Protection Bachelor’s Program

23% Women
62% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 77% of fire protection bachelor's degrees went to men and 23% went to women. The typical fire protection bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% women. So female students are more repesented at CSUSM since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 30% more racial-ethnic minorities in its fire protection bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - San Marcos with a bachelor's in fire protection.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 3
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

Concentrations Within Fire Protection

If you plan to be a fire protection major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from California State University - San Marcos. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Fire Protection 18

Careers That Fire Protection Grads May Go Into

A degree in fire protection can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - San Marcos.

Occupation Jobs in CA Average Salary in CA
Managers 66,300 $143,350
Firefighters 32,910 $81,580
Fire Fighting Supervisors 2,880 $134,870
Fire Inspectors 700 $103,830
Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists 340 $82,000

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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