Terms Of Use

By using emergencymanagementprograms.com you accept the terms below. They cover what this site is, what its rankings mean, and the limits of what you should rely on it for. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

What This Site Is

This is an independent reference and ranking site about emergency management degree programs. It is published by the operator of emergencymanagementprograms.com and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated on behalf of any university, college, government agency or certifying body named on it. References to institutions, degrees and credentials are for identification and comparison. Trade marks and program names belong to their respective owners.

Information, Not Advice

Nothing here is educational, financial, legal or career advice, and nothing here creates a professional relationship between you and us. Choosing a degree is a decision with real financial consequences, and it should be made with the school's own admissions and financial aid offices, not on the strength of a web page.

Accuracy, And What To Verify Before You Rely On It

Program data comes from federal records, principally the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, and wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Program detail comes from each school's own published page, which is linked from every card so you can check it. Our methodology page sets out the model in full.

Even so, this information carries the ordinary limits of published data. Federal datasets are released annually and describe a year that has already finished. Schools change tuition, credit requirements, delivery formats and admissions rules without notice, and sometimes close programs entirely. We correct what we find, but we cannot warrant that every figure is current or complete at the moment you read it.

Verify anything you would act on directly with the school. Tuition, credit counts, delivery format, accreditation status, admission requirements and application deadlines should all be confirmed with the institution before you apply or pay anything.

What A Ranking Is

Our scores are editorial opinion produced by applying a published, consistent model to published data. They are not a measure of educational quality, not an accreditation, and not a prediction of what any individual student will experience. A program's position reflects the factors we chose to weigh and the data those factors could be computed from, both of which are set out on the methodology page along with what the model deliberately leaves out.

No institution can buy a position, influence a score, or pay to be added or removed. A program appears because federal data lists it and we were able to confirm it against the school's own page.

No Guarantee Of Outcomes

Wage figures describe what people in an occupation were paid, not what you will be paid. Nothing here promises admission, graduation, certification, employment or any level of income. Career results depend on far more than which degree you hold.

Compensation

This site may receive compensation when readers request information from or enroll in programs featured here. Sponsored placements are labeled. Accreditation status, wage data, and program structure data are sourced directly from official records and are reported the same way regardless of partnership status.

Acceptable Use

You may read, link to, quote and cite this site freely. You may not:

• copy or scrape the rankings, datasets or written profiles in bulk in order to republish them, whether as a competing site, a data feed or training material;
• present our data or scores as your own, or as though the institution or a government agency produced them;
• use automated tools in a way that degrades the site for other people, or attempt to circumvent access controls or security measures;
• use the site for anything unlawful, or to infringe anyone's rights.

Quoting a figure or a passage with a link back is fine and welcome. Reproducing whole pages or the underlying dataset is not.

Our Content And Other People's

The written profiles, scoring model, page copy and site design are ours and are protected by copyright. The underlying federal data from IPEDS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics is United States government work and is not ours to restrict. Program descriptions attributed to a school remain that school's material, quoted here for comparison and attributed on the page.

Links To Other Sites

We link to schools, federal agencies and certifying bodies throughout. We do not control those sites, do not endorse everything on them, and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability.

Availability

The site is provided as is and as available. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error free, and we may change, move or remove pages, including whole rankings, at any time.

Limitation Of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator of emergencymanagementprograms.com is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, opportunity, savings or data, arising from your use of this site or your reliance on anything published on it. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, in which case those limitations apply only so far as the law permits and nothing here removes rights you cannot waive.

Corrections

If something on this site is wrong we want to fix it, and every card links the page it was written from so a disagreement is usually settled quickly. Send the program and the figure to help@hakia.com. Corrections are made to the underlying data, which updates every page that uses it rather than patching one sentence.

Changes To These Terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page shows when they last changed, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised version.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to help@hakia.com. Our privacy policy covers what the site does and does not collect.