2023 Best Value Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Fire Protection School for You
With 5 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, fire protection is the #209 most popular major in South Carolina.
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in South Carolina to see which programs offered the best value experiences for fire protection students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Best South Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Fire Protection
Our 2023 rankings named Greenville Technical College the best value school in South Carolina for fire protection students. GTC is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Greenville.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at GTC are $5,186 a year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Columbia College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina list. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Columbia College South Carolina is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Columbia College South Carolina undergraduate students pay an average of $18,218 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Piedmont Technical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina list. Piedmont Technical College is a small public school located in the distant town of Greenwood.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Piedmont Technical College are $5,315 per year.
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Request InformationBest 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 |
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Georgia | 29 |
Virginia | 41 |
North Carolina | 255 |
Florida | 260 |
Tennessee | 44 |
Kentucky | 72 |
Louisiana | 19 |
Arkansas | 7 |
Alabama | 1,020 |
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.
Majors Similar to Fire Protection
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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 3 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.