The program prepares students to meet the ever-increasing public sector challenges present in the fire service professions. The fire science and administration program is an aggressive accelerated program. The schedule of courses is composed of intensive nine-week sessions throughout the year. The program is time and cost effective. Off-campus locations are conveniently located.
Students benefit from small class sizes.
The fire science and administration program is the only program of this type offered in Massachusetts. The program provides a unique focus on the critical skills required of chief fire officers. Students are required to pay the tuition for a 1-credit course and write a paper in which the topic must be approved by the program director for each of the electives fulfilled by the Executive Fire Officer Program. Research Requirement Consistent with the fire service graduate level national model, the research requirement shall be met only by successful completion of the research course offered through the Fire Science program. Successful presentation and review of the research.