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South Portland Campus Midcoast Campus Online Campus
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Lulu: Automotive Technology Jada: Culinary Arts Alex: Cyber Security Adiel: Construction Technology Michael: Business Administration
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Why Choose SMCC Choose Your Path Get Started How to Apply Visit

Offerings

Arts, Humanities, Digital Media & Communication Business and Hospitality Computer Science and Information Technology Education Health Sciences Industrial Technology & Transportation Public Safety Science, Engineering, & Mathematics Social and Behavioral Sciences and Human Services Academic Support

Campus Life

Housing & Dining Athletics Student Activities Enrichment Opportunities Beyond the Classroom

Paying for College

Tuition Tuition Breaks & Programs Financial Aid Free College

Campuses

South Portland Campus Midcoast Campus Online Campus

Meet our Students

Lulu: Automotive Technology Jada: Culinary Arts Alex: Cyber Security Adiel: Construction Technology Michael: Business Administration
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Public Safety

If you’re looking for a career that serves the community, allows you to make an impact and even save lives, Public Safety is for you. Graduates serve as law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical professionals.

What training and programs are available?

Workforce Training & Courses

Learn skills to enter the workforce quickly, and if desired return to earn a certificate or associate degree. Grant-funded opportunities (free of charge to trainees) available.

  • Emergency Medical Services Department Offerings
  • Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
  • Paralegal

Additional Programs

  • MFSI Fire Fighter l & ll
  • Public Safety Live-in Program

Associate Degrees & Certificates

Earn a degree or certificate and enter the workforce or continue your education at a four-year college.

Associate Degrees

  • Criminal Justice Degree
  • Emergency Medical Services/Paramedicine Degree
  • Fire Science Degree

Certificates

  • Fire Science Certificate

Part of the public safety system offered here you have your Criminal Justice, there's an EMT Paramedic course. I'm doing the Fire Science, they have the trifecta of public safety here. And Fire Science is my first semester here, going over everything from building and fire codes to public safety, how to extinguish fires, different types of fires, building codes, and then we're gonna have different types of buildings and how they're constructed. How they burn. So just gonna go the safety side of that too. On the South Portland campus, you have the Fire Science program. And that's not just within the Living Program where you're living at a fire station, you're going on calls, it's dispatch, it's LIFESTAR mechanic, it's a million different other things, wild land -- Things that you don't normally talk about, and it's opened up my eyes to all different career paths I've been thinking about even to this day.

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