2023 Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 195,678 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,611 and had an average of $25,989 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 133 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,246 and $26,363 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in psychology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in psychology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska”.

Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for 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. UAA is located in Anchorage, Alaska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 81 ’s psychology degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UAA Psychology Report

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 be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 36 diplomas to qualified ’s psychology students in 2020-2021.

Full UAF Psychology Report

3

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

$70,068 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alaska Pacific University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Psychology Major in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 16 degrees to qualified ’s psychology students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Psychology at Alaska Pacific University

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nevit Dilmen.