Fire Protection at Western Illinois University

If you are interested in studying fire protection, you may want to check out the program at Western Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

WIU is located in Macomb, Illinois and approximately 7,490 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 18 students received a bachelor's degree in fire protection from WIU.

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.

WIU Fire Protection Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fire Protection

WIU Fire Protection Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks fire protection programs across the country. The following shows how WIU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The fire protection major at WIU 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Fire Protection Schools	127
Most Focused Fire Protection Schools	212

Earnings of WIU Fire Protection Graduates

The median salary of fire protection students who receive their bachelor's degree at WIU is $35,038. This is less than $73,459, which is the national average of all fire protection majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Fire Protection Student Demographics at WIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fire protection majors at Western Illinois University.

WIU Fire Protection Bachelor’s Program

Of the 18 fire protection students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from WIU, about 89% were men and 11% were women.

About 78% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in fire protection at WIU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Western Illinois University with a bachelor's in fire protection.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

WIU also has a doctoral program available in fire protection. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Homeland Security
• Criminal Justice & Corrections

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 IL, the home state for Western Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Firefighters	17,170	$56,710
Fire Fighting Supervisors	3,450	$90,860
Fire Inspectors	730	$64,760

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By IlliniGradResearch under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.