Online Fire Science Degree

Online Certificate Degree:

Certified Fire Fighter II
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Online Bachelor Degree:

Fire Science
University of Maryland University College

Fire Science (6)
Columbia Southern University


Online Masters Degree:

Fire Protection Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute


Fire science practitioners, including structural and wild land fire fighters, are amongst the worlds most respected professionals. An online fire science degree can be your ticket to this exciting, high status, and highly rewarding career. There are many career pathways that can be gained from a fire science degree, including fire prevention, disaster recovery, public fire prevention, and engineering fire prevention materials. You can earn an associates degree in fire sciences, or specialize to a bachelors and masters degree in fire sciences. Most public fire safety professionals have a bachelor or higher degree in fire sciences. Your online fire science degree can also be concentrated on a specialty such as terrorism incident management and recovery, natural disaster relief, and arson investigation.

Depending on your desired level of education in your online fire science degree and your area of concentration, your courses may include management and administration, material handling and design, fire prevention in contract and architectural studies, disaster planning, and fire service equipment. Courses are offered through interactive media such as Web based applications and CD or DVDs. The majority of content for an online fire sciences degree is downloadable, such as books, multimedia video and audio presentations, and articles.