2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska

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Ethnic Studies is the 99th most popular major in the country with 9,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, ethnic studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,818 and had an average of $22,901 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 12 ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 ethnic studies 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 Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in ethnic studies. That schools that top this list have a program in ethnic studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in Alaska

1

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 #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Ethnic Studies at UAF

2

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 #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska. UAS is located in Juneau, Alaska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full UAS Ethnic Studies Report

3

Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alaska Pacific University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska. This small school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Alaska Pacific University Ethnic Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic Studies

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.

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