2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Special Education 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 Special Ed Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 36,792 people earned their degree in special education, making the major the 29th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, special education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,679 and had an average of $24,977 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 52 special education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,079 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 special 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 Special Ed Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in special education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their special education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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 Special Ed 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 Special Ed Major in Alaska

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

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

1

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

$53,079 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Special Ed Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Southeast landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Juneau, Alaska, and it awarded 11 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full UAS Special Education Report

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 Special Ed Major in Alaska. This medium-sized school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 5 masters’s special ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Special Education at UAF

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 Special Ed Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified masters’s special ed students 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%.

Read more about Special Education at University of Alaska Anchorage

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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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