2023 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering Technologies in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Technologies is the 20th most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 112 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,794 and $29,037 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering technologies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering technologies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering Technologies 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

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #1 spot on the list. UAA is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 78 ’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad 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%.

Full UAA Engineering Technologies 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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s engineering tech degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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

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