2023 Most Focused Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in electrical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their electrical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on EE Major in Alaska

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

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$45,077 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,561 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools 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. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 22 ’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at UAF

2

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$49,843 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,309 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools 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. UAA is a fairly large public school situated in Anchorage, Alaska. It awarded 10 ’s EE degrees 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 full report on 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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