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2023 Best Value Fire Protection Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$14,838 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,927 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fire Protection School for You

Fire Protection is the #233 most popular major in the country with 172 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Fire Protection Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for fire protection students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Fire Protection Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Fire Protection Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Fire Protection

#1

Purdue University Global

Indianapolis, IN
$14,436 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Purdue University Global the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for fire protection students. Located in the small city of Indianapolis, Purdue University Global is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Purdue University Global undergraduate students pay an average of $14,436 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Fire Protection at Purdue University Global Report

$15,240 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Fire Protection Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public college with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SIUC are $15,240 per year.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Best Fire Protection Colleges by State

Explore the best fire protection colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 19
Ohio 0
Indiana 89

More Fire Protection Rankings in the Great Lakes Region

One of 4 majors within the area of study, fire protection has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Corrections 7,783
Homeland Security 2,759
Security Science and Technology 1,875
Other Homeland Security 456

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.

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