The main focus area for this major is General Economics. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Economics is a major offered under the social sciences program of study at University of Alaska Anchorage. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in economics, such as if the program is offered online, ethnicity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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If you're the kind of person who enjoys working with numbers and solving tough problems, a graduate degree in economics may be for you.
In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at UAA was ranked #566 on College Factual's Best Schools for economics list. It is also ranked #1 in Alaska.
Here are some of the other rankings for UAA.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at UAA was $824 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $258 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $7,224 | $23,072 |
Fees | $1,526 | $2,156 |
Books and Supplies | $1,320 | $1,320 |
On Campus Room and Board | $12,662 | $12,662 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $7,000 | $7,000 |
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economics who receive their bachelor’s degree from UAA make an average of $44,170 a year during the early days of their career. That is 6% lower than the national average of $46,790.
Online degrees for the UAA economics bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UAA Online Learning page.
About 28.6% of the students who received their Bachelor’s in economics in 2019-2020 were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 33.7%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in economics at UAA in 2019-2020, 14.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 1 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 6 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Economics students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Economics | 7 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to economics.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Anthropology | 12 |
Political Science & Government | 22 |
Sociology | 10 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.