2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Business, Management & Marketing is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 862,104 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, business, management and marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,915 and had an average of $25,393 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 721 business, management and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,857 and $20,187 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 119 business, management and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in business, management and marketing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their business, management and marketing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree business, management & marketing students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing in Alaska

1

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, Alaska Pacific University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 34 masters’s business, management and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Business, Management & Marketing at Alaska Pacific University

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 44 degrees to qualified masters’s business, management and marketing students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Business, Management & Marketing Report

3

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 #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Alaska. UAA is located in Anchorage, Alaska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 41 masters’s business, management and marketing degrees to qualified students.

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 University of Alaska Anchorage Business, Management & Marketing Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar.