by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region” ranking.
In 2021-2022, 13,901 people earned their degree in fire protection, making the major the 118th most popular in the United States. In , fire protection graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $47,929 and had an average of $17,155 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 283 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,133 and $23,703 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 101 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in fire protection. That schools that top this list have a program in fire protection in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Anna Maria College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region list. Anna Maria is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Paxton, Massachusetts. It awarded 67 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Haven. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region. This medium-sized school is located in West Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Salem State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region. Salem State is a medium-sized school located in Salem, Massachusetts that handed out 10 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Providence College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region. Providence College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 0 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the New England Region list. Henniker, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s fire protection degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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