by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 “Most Well Attended Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in ethnic studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful ethnic studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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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 “Most Well Attended Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree ethnic studies students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. 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.
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 Most Well Attended Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s. Located in Juneau, Alaska, this small public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ethnic studies 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.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Ethnic Studies Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Alaska Pacific University landed the #3 spot on the list. Alaska Pacific University is located in Anchorage, Alaska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s ethnic studies degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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