2025 Best Fire Prevention & Safety Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
7Colleges in the Southeast Region
301Associate Degrees
Ranked #71 in popularity, fire prevention & safety technology/technician is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Fire Prevention & Safety Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 301 associate degrees in fire prevention & safety technology/technician during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Fire Prevention & Safety Technology/Technician School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of fire prevention & safety technology/technician for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality fire prevention and safety technology/technician program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to fire prevention & safety technology/technician students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other fire prevention & safety technology/technician students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized fire prevention & safety technology/technician related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for fire prevention & safety technology/technician students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Fire Prevention & Safety Technology/Technician Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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.