2023 Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Alaska
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Alaska, there were 4 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering.
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Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Alaska
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Alaska”.
Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for General Engineering in Alaska
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering 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 medium-sized public school situated in Fairbanks, Alaska. It awarded 3 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Alaska. UAA is a fairly large public school situated in Anchorage, Alaska. It awarded 1 ’s engineering 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%.
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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
- *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.
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