2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Alaska

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In 2020-2021, 28,166 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 30th most popular in the United States.

Across Alaska, there were 32 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in electrical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in electrical engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. UAF is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UAF Electrical Engineering Report

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #2 spot on the list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s EE degrees to 10 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 Electrical Engineering at UAA

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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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