2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Science in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$28,100
Avg Cost*
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In 2021-2022, 8,321 people earned their degree in fire science, making the major the 266th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,734 fire science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 fire science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in fire science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fire Science Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree fire science students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Science in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Fire Science Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s fire science students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Fire Science at UF
Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
