2023 Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 141,695 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, general psychology is the 4th most popular major in the United States.

Across Alaska, there were 109 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 99 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general psychology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general psychology programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s psychology degrees to 67 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Psychology at University of Alaska Anchorage

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school awarded 32 degrees to qualified bachelors’s psychology students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Psychology at UAF

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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

• *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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