2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alaska
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
With 200,458 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, engineering is the 6th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,888 and had an average of $23,564 in loans still to pay off.
Across Alaska, there were 228 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,667 and $20,946 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,325 and $26,561 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alaska
The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree engineering students.
Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Alaska
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alaska list. This medium-sized school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 23 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.
UAF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UAF are $24,287.
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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
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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