2023 Most Well Attended EE Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

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Electrical Engineering is the 39th most popular major in the country with 28,844 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,380 and had an average of $24,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 32 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,222 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended EE Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in electrical engineering.

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Most Well Attended EE Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended EE Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s”.

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

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$62,593 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 #1 for the Most Well Attended EE Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s EE degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$77,850 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended EE Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s list. University of Alaska Anchorage is located in Anchorage, Alaska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.

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 more about Electrical Engineering at University of Alaska Anchorage

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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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