2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Education Major in Alaska for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 26 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,661 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Education Major in Alaska for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general education programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Education Major in Alaska for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree education students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Alaska

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Education Major in Alaska for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. UAF is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 masters’s education degrees to qualified students.

Full UAF General Education Report

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University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Education Major in Alaska for a Master’s. UAS is located in Juneau, Alaska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s education degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about General Education at University of Alaska Southeast

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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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