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2023 Most Popular Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina

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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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in South Carolina to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Fire Protection program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Fire Protection Colleges.

Our analysis found Greenville Technical College to be the most popular school for fire protection students who want to pursue a degree in South Carolina. GTC is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Greenville.

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#2

Columbia College

Columbia, SC

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 Most Popular Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina list. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, Columbia College South Carolina is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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#2

Piedmont Technical College

Greenwood, SC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Piedmont Technical College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Fire Protection Schools in South Carolina list. Piedmont Technical College is a small public school located in the town of Greenwood.

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Best Fire Protection Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Most Popular 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
Louisiana 19
Arkansas 7
Alabama 1,020
Mississippi 1
West Virginia 91

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

Majors Similar to Fire Protection

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 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).

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