2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Education in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 328,588 degrees handed out in 2021-2022, education is the 4th most popular major in the United States. In , education graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $46,195 and had an average of $29,274 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 304 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,570 and $19,273 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $21,190 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Education in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska. This small school is located in Juneau, Alaska, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s education degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Education at University of Alaska Southeast

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 28 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Education at University of Alaska Fairbanks

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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