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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Nursing is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 322,592 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,916 and had an average of $25,426 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 177 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $92,010 and $26,312 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nursing. That schools that top this list have a program in nursing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$73,122 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,312 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Major in Alaska list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nursing degrees to 157 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Nursing at UAA

2

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 #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Major in Alaska. Alaska Pacific University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s 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.

Read full report on Nursing at Alaska Pacific

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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

• *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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