by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Dental Hygiene Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Dental Hygiene/Hygienist is the 98th most popular major in the country with 8,807 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Alaska, there were 17 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 dental hygiene/hygienist graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in dental hygiene/hygienist.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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 Dental Hygiene Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Dental Hygiene Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s”.
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 Most Well Attended Dental Hygiene Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s. University of Alaska Anchorage is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 17 bachelors’s dental hygiene 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 more about our data sources and methodologies
