2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for English Language & Literature in Alaska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

English Language & Literature is the 18th most popular major in the country with 54,635 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, English language and literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,352 and had an average of $23,972 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 52 English language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,926 and $21,852 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 English language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in English language and literature. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their English language and literature program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for English Language & Literature 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska. This fairly large school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s English language and literature degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Alaska Anchorage English Language & Literature Report

2

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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s English language and literature degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on English Language & Literature at University of Alaska Fairbanks

3

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alaska Pacific University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska list. Alaska Pacific is a small school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 1 bachelors’s English language and literature degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about English Language & Literature at Alaska Pacific

4

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in Alaska. Juneau, Alaska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s English language and literature degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full University of Alaska Southeast English Language & Literature Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for English Language & Literature in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for English Language & Literature

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 Mike Hazard.