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2022 Best Value Biological Science Schools for an Associate in Alaska For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$11,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Biological Science Schools for an Associate in Alaska For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Biological Science Schools for an Associate in Alaska For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Biological & Physical Science is the 36th most popular major in the country with 29,162 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, biological and physical science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,647 and had an average of $18,790 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 40 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $19,721 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,350 and $16,973 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent biological and physical science 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 biological and physical science 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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Best Value Biological Science Schools for an Associate in Alaska For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska associate degree biological science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in Alaska (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biological Science Schools for an Associate in Alaska For Those Getting Aid. Juneau, Alaska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s biological science degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

UAS also made our “Best Biological & Physical Science Associate Degree Schools in Alaska” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $11,787 for Alaska Associate Degree Biological Science students with aid per year to attend University of Alaska Southeast.

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

Read more about Biological & Physical Science at UAS

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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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