2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Education is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 4th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 327,871 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,202 and had an average of $24,437 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 338 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,570 and $21,900 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 159 education graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in education. That schools that top this list have a program in education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Education in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Southeast. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska list. Juneau, Alaska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s education degrees to 93 students in 2020-2021.

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 Education at UAS

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 44 masters’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Education Report

3

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Alaska Anchorage is located in Anchorage, Alaska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 masters’s education 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 full report on Education at University of Alaska Anchorage

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Education in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Education

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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