2021 Best Colleges in Alaska for Students from Russia

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for international students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Russian Students in Alaska ranking - to help you make that decision.

After analyzing 2 schools in Alaska, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Russian students in Alaska. Our ranking is based on several objective factors, including the school's overall quality and the total number of international students at the school. We steer clear of subjective measures since they don't give a clear picture when determining how one school compares to another.

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Top Colleges in Alaska for Students from Russia

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK

$25,654 Avg Tuition & Fees

2.2% International Students

Our 2021 rankings named University of Alaska Fairbanks the best school for Russian students in Alaska working on their bachelor’s degree. UAF is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 568 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

International students make up 2.2% of the total student body at the school. Students from as far away as India, Canada, and China come to UAF to study.

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2

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, AK

$25,228 Avg Tuition & Fees

1.7% International Students

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 1,044 students in 2020-2021.

Around 1.7% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at UAA come from such countries as Canada, South Korea, and Russia.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 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.