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2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

5 Ranked Colleges
118 Degrees Awarded
$64,856 Avg Salary
Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Fire Protection is the 118th most popular major in the country with 13,901 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 771 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,174 and $12,810 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 118 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,140 and $21,982 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in fire protection. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in fire protection.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Fire Protection in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah Valley University landed the #1 spot on the list. UVU is a large school located in Orem, Utah that handed out 87 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fire Protection at UVU

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan State University of Denver. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. MSU Denver is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fire Protection at MSU Denver

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis - Clark State College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Lewis - Clark State College is located in Lewiston, Idaho and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Lewis - Clark State College

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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #4 spot on the list. Colorado State is located in Fort Collins, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Fire Protection at Colorado State

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Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Idaho State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Fire Protection Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. ISU is a fairly large school located in Pocatello, Idaho that handed out 1 bachelors’s fire protection degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

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