2023 Best Colleges in Alaska
3
Colleges
$44,115
Avg Salary*
15%
Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
There are lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Top Alaska Colleges ranking - to help you make that decision.
We analyzed 3 colleges and universities across Alaska to determine which were the best in terms of overall quality. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on over 20 objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as student-to-faculty ratio, average graduate earnings, and graduation rate.
See what other factors we include in our ranking methodology.
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We've developed a number of other tools and rankings to help you make your college decision. Start by filtering this list by location or field of study and then explore our other rankings that feature schools great for different groups of students such as veterans or returnings adults.
We've created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you're torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another!
Top Colleges in Alaska
Learn more about these excellent schools below:
University of Alaska Anchorage tops this year’s ranking as the best school in Alaska for overall quality. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, the fairly large public school handed out 2,079 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1% Those who receive a bachelor’s degree from UAA go into careers with an average salary of $47,891 during the early years of their career.
Full University of Alaska Anchorage Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 in Alaska on this year’s overall quality ranking. UAF is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1,335 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergradutates.
Graduates with a bachelor’s degree from UAF make an average of $43,728 per year during the early years of their career.
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A rank of #3 on our Best Colleges in Alaska list means University of Alaska Southeast is a great place for students working on their bachelor’s degree. UAS is located in Juneau, Alaska and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 582 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergradutates.
The average salary of a graduate with a bachelor’s degree from UAS is $40,727 during the early years of their career.
Full University of Alaska Southeast Report
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.
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%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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