2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 313,362 nursing students received their degree, making the major the 3rd most popular in the country. In 2017-2018, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $67,065 and had an average of $26,282 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 168 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,700 and $24,870 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 151 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nursing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nursing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Best Value Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$12,995 Average Net Price

$72,083 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #1 spot on the list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nursing degrees to 151 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UAA is $12,995 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Nursing students.

Read more about Nursing at University of Alaska Anchorage

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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