2025 Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
6Colleges in the Southeast Region
645Associate 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for fire science students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 645 associate degrees in fire science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Fire Science School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of fire science for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality fire science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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 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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for fire science students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is hard to beat Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale if you wish to pursue an associate degree in fire science. Located in the midsize city of Fort Lauderdale, Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a associate in fire science from Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale
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
Your choice of fire science for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality fire science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
