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2023 Best Value Fire Protection Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$21,823 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,079 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Fire Protection Master's Degree 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Fire Protection Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for fire protection students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Check out the fire protection master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Fire Protection

#1

Purdue University Global

Indianapolis, IN

Our 2023 rankings named Purdue University Global the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for fire protection students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Indianapolis, Purdue University Global is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Purdue University Global are $10,582 a year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Southern Illinois University Carbondale helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value fire protection schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SIUC are $33,064 a year.

Read full report on Fire Protection at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Best Fire Protection Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 19
Ohio 0
Indiana 89

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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