2023 Most Popular Colleges for General Psychology 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 “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska” 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska” 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

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

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for General Psychology in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$49,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,309 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 #1 for the Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school handed out 73 degrees to qualified ’s psychology 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 UAA

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$45,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,561 Average Student Debt

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 Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized public school situated in Fairbanks, Alaska. It awarded 36 ’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks General Psychology Report

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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.

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