2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechanical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mechanical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ME degrees to 5 students 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 more about Mechanical Engineering at University of Alaska Anchorage

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 2 masters’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at UAF

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