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2023 Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Kansas

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$3,114 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,547 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fire Protection Associate Degree School for You

With 61 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, fire protection is the #117 most popular major in Kansas.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Kansas ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Kansas to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for fire protection students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Kansas Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Fire Protection

#1

Johnson County Community College

Overland Park, KS

Our 2023 rankings named Johnson County Community College the best value school in Kansas for fire protection students working on their associate degree. JCCC is a large public school located in the midsize city of Overland Park.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at JCCC are $2,688 per year.

JCCC also made our Best Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Kansas list, coming in at #3.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Johnson County Community College

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Hutchinson Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Kansas list. Located in the town of Hutchinson, Hutchinson Community College is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Hutchinson Community College are $3,540 per year. The average amount in student loans that fire protection majors at Hutchinson Community College take out while working on their Associate Degree is $12,591.

Full Fire Protection at Hutchinson Community College Report

Best Value Fire Protection Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 25
Minnesota 35
Iowa 121
Nebraska 12

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 averages are for the top 2 schools 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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