2025 Best Fire Protection Schools in Kansas

If you plan on majoring in fire protection, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #118 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kansas to determine which ones were the best for fire protection students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 161 degrees in fire protection to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Fire Protection Schools List

Pick Your Fire Protection Degree Level

The fire protection school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Fire Protection Schools in Kansas. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Fire Protection in Kansas

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the fire protection degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Kansas Schools in Fire Protection

1

Johnson County Community College
Overland Park, KS

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

39 Fire Protection Degrees Awarded

64.1% Growth in Graduates

Johnson County Community College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in fire protection. JCCC is a large public college located in the city of Overland Park.More information about a degree in fire protection from Johnson County Community College

2

Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson, KS

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

86 Fire Protection Degrees Awarded

29.1% Growth in Graduates

It is difficult to beat Hutchinson Community College if you want to pursue a degree in fire protection. Hutchinson Community College is a small public college located in the distant town of Hutchinson.

Soon after graduation, fire protection degree recipients generally earn an average of $51,007 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a degree in fire protection from Hutchinson Community College

Best Fire Protection Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	284	35
Missouri	283	25
Iowa	264	121
Nebraska	238	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Fire Protection

One of 4 majors within the Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting area of study, Fire Protection has other similar majors worth exploring.

Fire Protection Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Fire Science	161

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Most Popular Majors Related to Fire Protection

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections	393
Security Science and Technology	48
Homeland Security	33
Other Homeland Security	8

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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.