by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
University of Alaska Anchorage came in at #717 out of the 1149 colleges and universities that were ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Alaska, UAA came in at #1.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, UAA came in at #508.
UAA also ranked #1 for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Alaska.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 68.3% of the total graduate students at UAA are women and 31.7% are men.
Of all the graduate students at UAA, around 27.5% belong to a racial-ethnic minority group. UAA is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 3.0% of the graduate student population. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $10,773 | $22,659 |
| Fees | $1,375 | $1,837 |
After obtaining their master's degree from UAA, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $71,993. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 23% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of University of Alaska Anchorage.
Contact details for UAA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508 |
| Phone: | 907-786-1800 |
| Website: | www.uaa.alaska.edu/ |
In 2020-2021, 81.4% of the graduate students at University of Alaska Anchorage took at least one class online. Approximately 63.0% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
| Doctorate Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Psychology | 6 |
| Nursing | 3 |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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