If you plan on majoring in fire protection, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #118 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
There was only one school in Alabama to review for the 2025 Best Fire Protection Schools in Alabama ranking.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Fire Protection Schools in Alabama list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the fire protection degrees they offer, see the list below.
Columbia Southern University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in fire protection. Located in the fringe town of Orange Beach, Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Fire Protection degree recipients from Columbia Southern University get an earnings boost of about $22,441 above the typical income of fire protection majors.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
