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

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Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 99,265 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,712 and had an average of $26,539 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 186 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,998 and $18,550 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. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting.

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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

$54,366 Average Early-Career Earnings

$17,100 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #1 spot on the list. UAA is located in Anchorage, Alaska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 59 bachelors’s accounting degrees to qualified students.

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%.

Read more about Accounting at UAA

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$46,188 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Accounting at UAF

3

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alaska Pacific University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Alaska. Alaska Pacific University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Alaska Pacific Accounting Report

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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.

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