College credit for firefighter training/academy

[dfrecore]

You aren't "owed" college credit just because you have experience (even a lot of experience) in something.

I think your best bet is to try several things:
1) see if any of your certifications are in the ACE database
2) contact a couple of schools that take a lot of ACE credit and have a Fire Science degree (AMU/APU is the only one on my list)
3) if no ACE, see if you can figure out how to PLA your credits, especially UL
4) AMU/APU has a Fire Science Management degree, both through their regular online format (120cr, course-by-course) and as a competency-based program called Momentum.  To do Momentum, you need to already have an AA/AS degree to start the program, so that would mean getting an inexpensive associates from somewhere (COSC may be the cheapest, I'm not sure, but you don't want an AAS, you want an AA/AS).  The good thing about Momentum is that you'd probably have a really easy time doing the courses quickly, because of your experience.  At $2500/16-week term, you could finish in 1-2 terms.

If I were you, I would list any actual college credit here (if you have any) and any ACE credit you have (if your certs are worth any) and then get a plan in place to get the AS from COSC, and then go to AMU/APU for the momentum program.