2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Mechanical Engineering is the 21st most popular major in the country with 46,178 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, mechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $69,007 and had an average of $23,944 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 66 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,195 and $23,334 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 59 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in mechanical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mechanical engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

$62,735 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,250 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska list. UAF is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 26 bachelors’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Mechanical Engineering Report

2

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$59,654 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,417 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #2 spot on the list. UAA is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s 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%.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at UAA

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical 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

• *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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.