2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 1 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,900 and $25,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Alaska”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Alaska.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$24,287 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Doctorate 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 1 doctorate’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UAF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UAF are $24,287, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks General Engineering Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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