2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in Alaska

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In 2020-2021, 85,188 people earned their degree in engineering technologies, making the major the 20th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 112 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,794 and $29,037 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 62 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,625 and $18,921 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering technologies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in Alaska

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #1 spot on the list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering tech degrees to 46 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%.

Full University of Alaska Anchorage Engineering Technologies Report

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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 an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 16 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at University of Alaska Fairbanks

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies

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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