Most Popular Fire Science Degree Programs for Women

Like the firefighting profession, post-secondary fire science programs are often dominated by men. The average female enrollment in the fire science and forestry programs we reviewed was 10%, but the schools on our list all have significantly higher female-to-male ratios. Whether you’re a man or a woman, if you would feel better in a more balanced program any of the schools below would be great options for you. We used the most trusted data from the National Center for Education Statistics to identify the 26 Most Popular Fire Science Degree Programs for Women. In order to be included on the list, at least 20% of the students enrolled in fire science, forestry and similar programs had to be female.

For more information regarding how the colleges and universities were selected, please refer to our methodology page.

Rank	Name	Fire Science Students	% of Women	Tuition	City	State
1	University of Wisconsin-Madison	33	52%	$8,592	Madison	Wisconsin
2	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	56	48%	$9,746	Seattle	Washington
3	University of Florida	55	42%	$4,060	Gainesville	Florida
4	Duke University	110	41%	$40,665	Durham	North Carolina
5	Metropolitan State University of Denver	30	40%	$3,809	Denver	Colorado
6	Yale University	38	39%	$40,500	New Haven	Connecticut
7	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	136	38%	$8,852	Blacksburg	Virginia
8	Montgomery College	56	36%	$6,750	Rockville	Maryland
9	Northern Arizona University	60	33%	$6,514	Flagstaff	Arizona
10	Utica College	45	33%	$29,476	Utica	New York
11	University of Maryland-College Park	30	33%	$6,966	College Park	Maryland
12	Arkansas Tech University	84	29%	$4,320	Russellville	Arkansas
13	Mississippi State University	53	28%	$5,805	Mississippi State	Mississippi
14	University of Alaska Fairbanks	25	28%	$5,115	Fairbanks	Alaska
15	The University of Montana	36	28%	$4,384	Missoula	Montana
16	Stark State College	34	26%	$3,372	North Canton	Ohio
17	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	89	26%	$5,270	Syracuse	New York
18	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	39	26%	$5,153	Raleigh	North Carolina
19	American Public University System	219	26%	$6,000	Charles Town	West Virginia
20	Oregon State University	72	25%	$6,228	Corvallis	Oregon
21	O C Collins Career Center	28	25%	#N/A	Chesapeake	Ohio
22	University of Maine	25	24%	$8,370	Orono	Maine
23	Michigan Technological University	44	20%	$12,615	Houghton	Michigan
24	Itasca Community College	30	20%	$4,547	Grand Rapids	Minnesota
25	University of Georgia	66	20%	$6,676	Athens	Georgia