2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Fire Protection is the 114th most popular major in the country with 13,176 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, fire protection graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,404 and had an average of $24,230 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 225 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,475 and $33,759 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fire protection. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great fire protection programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the fire protection program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$3,108 Average Net Price

$41,565 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. John Jay College of Criminal Justice is located in New York, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 33 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

John Jay also took the #1 spot in our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend John Jay is $3,108 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree fire protection students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#2

New Jersey City University

Jersey City, New Jersey

#3 in overall quality

$13,257 Average Net Price

$38,289 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey City University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s fire protection students in 2019-2020.

NJCU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $13,257 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Fire Protection students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend NJCU.

Read full report on Fire Protection at New Jersey City University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection (Income $30-$48k)

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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