2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics in Alaska

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In 2020-2021, 52,396 people earned their degree in mathematics and statistics, making the major the 17th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, mathematics and statistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $49,845 and had an average of $21,658 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 17 mathematics and statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 mathematics and statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mathematics and statistics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mathematics and statistics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree mathematics & statistics students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Statistics in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics 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 8 bachelors’s mathematics and statistics 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 Mathematics & Statistics at University of Alaska Anchorage

2

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in Alaska. University of Alaska Southeast is located in Juneau, Alaska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s mathematics and statistics degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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3

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Mathematics & Statistics Major in Alaska list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized public school situated in Fairbanks, Alaska. It awarded 4 bachelors’s mathematics and statistics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Mathematics & Statistics at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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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