2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on History Major 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on History Major in Alaska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

History is the 23rd most popular major in the country with 32,731 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, history graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,467 and had an average of $23,587 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 41 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,121 and $16,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 history graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on History Major in Alaska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in history. That schools that top this list have a program in history in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

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

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University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

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 History Major in Alaska list. UAA is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 35 bachelors’s history 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%.

Full University of Alaska Anchorage History Report

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on History Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s history degrees to qualified students.

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Abraham Ortelius.