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2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection

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13 Degrees Awarded
Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection

Veterans 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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Fire Protection is the 118th most popular major in the country with 13,766 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, fire protection graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,963 and had an average of $19,479 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 13 fire protection graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,683 and $28,650 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality fire protection programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the fire protection program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection”.

Top 1 Best Fire Protection Colleges for Veterans in Nebraska

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Nebraska for Fire Protection. MCC is located in Omaha, Nebraska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 ’s fire protection degrees to qualified students.

MCC also made our “[COLLEGE_QUALITY_NAME_ALL_LEVELS]” list, coming in at #[COLLEGE_QUALITY_RANK_ALL_LEVELS].Of the 13,244 students enrolled at MCC, 653 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 283 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $835. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

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

[Read full report on veteran student life at MCC]](/colleges/metropolitan-community-college-area/student-life/veterans/)

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