2022 Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Geoscience Engineering is the 285th most popular major in the country with 418 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, geoscience engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,700 and had an average of $24,579 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 10 geoscience engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 geoscience engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geoscience engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the geoscience engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree geoscience engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geoscience Engineering in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$10,333 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geoscience engineering students in 2019-2020.

UAF also took the #1 spot in our “Best Geoscience Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks is $10,333 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Geoscience Engineering students.

Read full report on Geoscience Engineering at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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

• *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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