2025 Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
6Colleges in the Southwest Region
226Associate Degrees
Ranked #66 in popularity, fire science 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 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Fire Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 226 associate degrees in fire science to qualified students.
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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. 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 include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection 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.
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 the Southwest Region.
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South Texas College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in fire science. Located in the midsize city of McAllen, South Texas College is a public college with a fairly large student population.More information about a associate in fire science from South Texas College
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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
