Best Fire Protection Associate Degree Colleges in Pennsylvania

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Pennsylvania that made our Best Fire Protection Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Fire Protection School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of fire protection for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 - How many other fire protection students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• 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 associate 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 associate degree.

Insufficient Data for Pennsylvania

As a result of absent data, we couldn't show you the fire protection quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Pennsylvania that both offer fire protection and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Fire Protection rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Fire Protection ranking.

Best Fire Protection Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Fire Protection Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	196	55
New Jersey	137	29
Maryland	126	14
District of Columbia	36	1

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Fire Protection Related Rankings by Major

Fire Protection is one of 4 different types of Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting programs to choose from.

Fire Protection Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Fire Services Administration	9
Fire Science	5
Fire Prevention & Safety Technology/Technician	4

Most Popular Majors Related to Fire Protection

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	597
Other Homeland Security	10
Homeland Security	5
Security Science and Technology	3

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.