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2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

5 Ranked Colleges
147 Degrees Awarded
$17,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k” 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 756 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,800 and $11,911 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 147 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 5 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the fire protection program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection (Income $75-$110k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah Valley University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Orem, Utah, and it awarded 104 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree fire protection students whose families make $75-$110k list, UVU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Utah Valley University is $12,141 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Fire Protection students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Fire Protection at UVU

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis - Clark State College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Lewis - Clark State College is a small public school situated in Lewiston, Idaho. It awarded 1 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2019-2020.

Lewis - Clark State College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Lewis - Clark State College is $14,622 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree fire protection students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Fire Protection at Lewis - Clark State College

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, this large public school awarded 22 degrees to qualified bachelors’s fire protection students in 2019-2020.

Colorado State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $24,440 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree fire protection students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Colorado State.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan State University of Denver landed the #4 spot on the list. MSU Denver is a fairly large public school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 19 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Denver did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $18,397 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Fire Protection students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend MSU Denver.

Full Metropolitan State University of Denver Fire Protection Report

#5

Idaho State University

Pocatello, Idaho
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Fire Protection Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Idaho State University landed the #5 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Pocatello, Idaho, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ISU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Fire Protection Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $19,875 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree fire protection students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend ISU.

Full Idaho State University Fire Protection Report

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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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