Fire Protection at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

If you plan to study fire protection, take a look at what Southern Illinois University Carbondale has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and has a total student population of 11,366.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Fire Protection section at the bottom of this page.

SIUC Fire Protection Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fire Protection

Online Classes Are Available at SIUC

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, SIUC does offer online courses in fire protection for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SIUC Fire Protection Rankings

The fire protection major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Fire Protection. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

How Much Do Fire Protection Graduates from SIUC Make?

The median salary of fire protection students who receive their bachelor's degree at SIUC is $103,432. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 41% higher than the national average of $73,459 for all fire protection bachelor's degree recipients.

Fire Protection Student Demographics at SIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the fire protection majors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

SIUC Fire Protection Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 44 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in fire protection from SIUC. About 89% were men and 11% were women.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in fire protection at SIUC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in fire protection.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	36
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

SIUC also has a doctoral program available in fire protection. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Fire Protection

If you plan to be a fire protection major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

Related Majors

Careers That Fire Protection Grads May Go Into

A degree in fire protection can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Firefighters	17,170	$56,710
Fire Fighting Supervisors	3,450	$90,860
Fire Inspectors	730	$64,760

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.