2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 73,172 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, accounting is the 7th most popular major in the United States.

Across Alaska, there were 106 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting. That schools that top this list have a program in accounting in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

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 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska. UAA is a fairly large public school situated in Anchorage, Alaska. It awarded 59 bachelors’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

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 Accounting Report

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

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 for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 19 bachelors’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Accounting at UAF

3

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alaska Pacific University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s accounting students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Alaska Pacific Accounting Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting

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.

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