2025 Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts
2Colleges in Massachusetts
24Associate Degrees
Fire Science is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #66 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 24 associate degrees in fire science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other fire science 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 science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for fire science students working on their associate degree.
The fire science 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 the Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team