Liberal Arts is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Liberal Arts Schools in Alaska ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 366 degrees in liberal arts annually.
The liberal studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Liberal Arts rankings. We derive our Best Overall Liberal Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Liberal Arts Schools in Alaska list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of liberal studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Alaska Southeast is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in liberal arts. Located in the rural area of Juneau, UAS is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 4 colleges for overall quality in the state of Alaska.
There were about 34 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at UAS in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Alaska Anchorage is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in liberal arts. UAA is a large public university located in the large city of Anchorage. A Best Colleges rank of #1235 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UAA is a great university overall.
There were approximately 251 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at UAA in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Alaska Fairbanks is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in liberal arts. UAF is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Fairbanks. This university ranks 3rd out of 4 colleges for overall quality in the state of Alaska.
There were roughly 64 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at UAF in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The liberal studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Liberal Arts rankings. We derive our Best Overall Liberal Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
