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2023 Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Alabama

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$5,775 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,547 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fire Protection Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 1,020 degrees and certificates were awarded to fire protection students who went to a Alabama college or university. This makes it the #14 most popular major in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Alabama ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Fire Protection Associate Degree School

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, AL

Our 2023 rankings named Columbia Southern University the best value school in Alabama for fire protection students working on their associate degree. Columbia Southern University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the fringe town of Orange Beach.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Columbia Southern University are $5,775 per year. While working on their Associate Degree, fire protection majors at Columbia Southern University accumulate an average of around $14,045 in student debt.

Columbia Southern University also made our Best Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Alabama list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Columbia Southern University

Best Value Fire Protection Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Fire Protection Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 29
Virginia 41
North Carolina 255
Florida 260
Tennessee 44
Kentucky 72
South Carolina 5
Louisiana 19
Arkansas 7
Mississippi 1
West Virginia 91

Fire Protection is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections 113,121
Homeland Security 7,140
Security Science and Technology 6,888
Other Homeland Security 1,695

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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