by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Finance Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Finance & Financial Management is the 14th most popular major in the country with 57,778 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, finance and financial management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,475 and had an average of $24,463 in loans still to pay off.
Across Alaska, there were 19 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,628 and $8,208 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Finance Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in finance and financial management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular finance and financial management programs in the United States.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Finance Major in Alaska” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Finance Major in Alaska”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Finance 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 17 ’s finance 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alaska Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Finance Major in Alaska list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified ’s finance 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.
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