You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in fire protection. It is ranked #219 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for fire protection students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 116 master's degrees in fire protection during the 2021-2022 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to fire protection students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of fire protection students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt fire protection students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fire protection related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for fire protection students working on their master's degree.
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 Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Fire Protection in the Great Lakes Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in fire protection.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Fire Protection
Purdue University Global is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in fire protection. Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue University Global is a public university with a very large student population.
Soon after graduating, fire protection master's recipients usually make around $57,691 in the first five years of their career.
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.
