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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska”.

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

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 7 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Civil Engineering at UAA

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Alaska list. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Civil Engineering at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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.

Credits

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