Fire and Emergency Services Administration

Degree Overview

The Bachelor of Science in fire and emergency services administration (FESA) at Colorado State University provides you with the skills and knowledge to perform administrative and managerial duties in fire and allied emergency service organizations. This degree gives you the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree and to advance your career.

You will learn administrative, management, and leadership skills, as well as the evolving requirements of emergency services. This degree completion program is designed to aid in career advancement within fire and allied emergency service organizations. You will explore key administrative areas such as personnel administration, financial management, emergency management, and program evaluation. During this degree, you will demonstrate your ability to:

• Effectively integrate academic knowledge into fire and emergency service administrative and managerial roles within current and future employment situations.
• Collaborate with peers to solve fire and emergency service organizational problems.
• Apply your knowledge, skills, and competencies to fire and emergency service organizations.

The fire and emergency services have a long and proud history of serving communities with a wide variety of fire protection, fire prevention, emergency medical, and emergency preparedness services. The administrators of the future need advanced administrative, management, and leadership skills to address the evolving requirements of emergency services. This program is ideal for you if you want to increase your administrative and management skills.

Degree Benefits

This FESA program is one of very few programs in the country that focuses on the administrative facet of fire and emergency services. It builds on the basic fire and emergency skills and experience that you learn from community college and other previous courses, and provides you with additional training which can help you to take your career to the next level.

• Gain knowledge and skills in the fire and emergency services field that can be applied immediately to your career.
• Fit your classes around your needs and your schedule with the flexibility of online and distance learning.
• Choose the order that your courses are taken because there is no set sequence to complete the degree.
• Further your education, advance your career, and learn skills and knowledge relevant to your profession.
• Learn from the highly qualified working professionals that are content experts in your field.
• Network with others in your industry from around the world and gain global connections.
• Earn the same accredited degree and receive a Colorado State University diploma identical to that given to on-campus students.
• Learn anywhere and anytime and still receive many of the benefits of being a CSU student.
• Attend the graduation ceremony in person and participate in the on-campus graduation ceremony. You can also view a live online streaming video of the graduation ceremony.