2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Electrical Engineering is the 31st most popular major in the country with 30,670 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $70,098 and had an average of $23,581 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 41 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent electrical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$12,995 Average Net Price

$78,971 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska. UAA is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 22 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UAA also took the #1 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UAA is $12,995 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree EE students.

Full University of Alaska Anchorage Electrical Engineering Report

#2

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 in overall quality

$10,333 Average Net Price

$61,516 Average Early-Career Earnings

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 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska. This medium-sized school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UAF also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $10,333 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree EE students per year to attend UAF.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at UAF

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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