2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Alaska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,380 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Alaska, there were 19 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general journalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general journalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Alaska list. UAA is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s 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 General Journalism Report

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Alaska list. UAF is a medium-sized public school situated in Fairbanks, Alaska. It awarded 3 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Journalism at UAF

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

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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