Fire Protection
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Fire Protection degree recipients are Orange Beach, AL, Santa Ana, CA, and Victorville, CA. In 2021, the locations with a relatively high number of Fire Protection degree recipients are Canfield, OH, Choctaw, OK, and Orange Beach, AL. The most common degree awarded to students studying Fire Protection is a associates degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Fire Protection and the types of students that study this field. Columbia Southern University awards the most degrees in Fire Protection in the US, but Mahoning County Career and Technical Center and Pike County Joint Vocational School District have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Fire Protection.
Tuition costs for Fire Protection majors are, on average, $3,649 for in-state public colleges, and $27,304 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Fire Protection programs are Public, 2-year institutions (334 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 2-year (6,938 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Fire Protection, is Public, 2-year (6,938 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Fire Protection programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Columbia Southern University has the most Fire Protection degree recipients, with 1,037 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Fire Protection.
Out of all institutions that offer Fire Protection programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Mahoning County Career and Technical Center has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Fire Protection, with 49.5%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Fire Protection by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Fire Protection.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Protective Services graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Protective Services majors is $71,318 and the most common occupations are Police officers, Other managers, and Security guards & gaming surveillance officers.
The industry that employs the most Protective Services majors is Justice, public order, & safety activities , though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Fabric mills, except knitting mills.
The average salary for Protective Services majors is $71,318 and the most common occupations are Police officers, Other managers, and Security guards & gaming surveillance officers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Protective Services majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Protective Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Protective Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Protective Services majors, by number of employees, are Police officers, Other managers, and Security guards & gaming surveillance officers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Protective Services majors working as Probation officers & correctional treatment specialists, Detectives & criminal investigators, and Firstline supervisors of police & detectives.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Protective Services majors are Physicians, Chief executives & legislators, and Magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
The number of Protective Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 4.77%, from 1.11M in 2020 to 1.16M in 2021.
The largest single share of Protective Services graduates go on to work as Police officers (11%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Protective Services by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Protective Services majors, by number of employees, are Justice, public order, & safety activities , Elementary & secondary schools, and Legal services.
The highest paying industries of Protective Services majors, by average wage, are Fabric mills, except knitting mills, Computer & peripheral equipment manufacturing, and Data processing, hosting & related services.
The number of Protective Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 4.77%, from 1.11M in 2020 to 1.16M in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Protective Services graduates by share is Justice, public order, & safety activities , followed by Elementary & secondary schools. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Protective Services.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Protective Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Protective Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Protective Services in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Protective Services is 39.8.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Associates Degree. Male employees are more likely to hold Protective Services degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Protective Services (8,720 students).
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Protective Services. The most common ages of employees with this major are 27 and 30 years old, which represent 3.73% and 3.35% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Fire Protection are Associates Degree, Bachelors Degree, and 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Protective Services are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Fire Protection.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Fire Protection for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Associates Degree recipients in Fire Protection.
White Male students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Antigua & Barbuda that hold Protective Services degrees (4.42 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (14,038 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Fire Protection field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fire Protection majors need many skills, but most especially Critical Thinking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Fire Protection majors need more than the average amount of Equipment Maintenance, Repairing, Equipment Selection, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Operation Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, Coordination, Management of Personnel Resources, Monitoring, Service Orientation, Learning Strategies, Instructing, Management of Material Resources, Judgment and Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Time Management, Negotiation, Systems Evaluation, Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Systems Analysis, Active Listening, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Speaking, Science, Technology Design, Operations Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Mathematics, Management of Financial Resources, Programming, and Installation.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Fire Protection majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Equipment Maintenance is very distinctive for majors, but the Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Active Listening, Coordination, Speaking, Judgment and Decision Making, Reading Comprehension, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Time Management, Writing, Social Perceptiveness, Instructing, Service Orientation, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Operation Monitoring, Systems Evaluation, Persuasion, Systems Analysis, Operation and Control, Negotiation, Quality Control Analysis, Troubleshooting, Mathematics, Equipment Maintenance, Science, Equipment Selection, Repairing, Operations Analysis, Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Technology Design, Programming, and Installation are the three most important skills for people in the field.
