2023 Most Focused Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Electrical Engineering is the 39th most popular major in the country with 26,528 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $74,389 and had an average of $23,045 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 29 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,222 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in electrical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska ee students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$45,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,019 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified ’s ee students 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 Electrical Engineering at UAF

2

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$49,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,091 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified ’s ee students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UAA Electrical Engineering Report

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.

Credits

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