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 has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Public Health is the 26th most popular major in the country with 40,596 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,158 and had an average of $27,396 in loans still to pay off.
Across Alaska, there were 109 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,043 and $14,649 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in public health in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Alaska” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual’s rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree public health students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Public Health Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #1 spot on the list. UAA is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 54 bachelors’s public 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 more about our data sources and methodologies
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