2023 Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Alabama
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Fire Protection 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.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Fire Protection Schools in Alabama ranking.
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.
Best Fire Protection School
Our analysis found Columbia Southern University to be the best value school for fire protection students who want to pursue a degree in Alabama. Columbia Southern University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the fringe town of Orange Beach.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Columbia Southern University are $5,775 a year. After completing their degree, fire protection graduates from Columbia Southern University carry an average student debtload of $15,803.
Columbia Southern University also took the #1 spot in our Best Fire Protection Schools in Alabama rankings.
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| 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 |
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Majors Related to Fire Protection
Fire Protection is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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.