2022 Best Vallue Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Vallue Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 1,961 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,969 and $21,795 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 61 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree fire protection students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection (Income Over $110k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$32,928 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Fire Protection Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 masters’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

SIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Fire Protection Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection (Income Over $110k)

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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