2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Allied Health Professions is the 18th most popular major in the country with 82,308 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, allied health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,436 and had an average of $20,148 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 42 allied health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,750 and $20,555 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 38 allied health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,625 and $18,921 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in allied health professions. That schools that top this list have a program in allied health professions in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The allied health school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$60,750 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,555 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska list. This fairly large school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 24 associates’s allied health 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%.

Read full report on Allied Health Professions at University of Alaska Anchorage

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Allied Health Major in Alaska list. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s allied health degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Allied Health Professions at UAF

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Allied Health Professions

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.