2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 6th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 200,458 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,888 and had an average of $23,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 228 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,667 and $20,946 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 192 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$7,133 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k. This medium-sized school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 90 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UAF also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks is $7,133 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Engineering at UAF

#2

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

#2 in overall quality

$9,986 Average Net Price

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 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 102 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

UAA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Alaska Anchorage is $9,986 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Engineering at University of Alaska Anchorage

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

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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