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

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In 2020-2021, 21,388 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 50th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $63,364 and had an average of $24,364 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 54 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,674 and $45,587 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in civil engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in civil engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$67,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 19 bachelors’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Civil Engineering at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$55,504 Average Early-Career Earnings

$45,587 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 24 degrees to qualified bachelors’s civil eng students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at University of Alaska Anchorage

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering

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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