2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Alaska” ranking.

Personal & Culinary Services is the 31st most popular major in the country with 130,328 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, personal and culinary services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $18,795 and had an average of $12,190 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 33 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 personal and culinary services graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,625 and $18,921 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in personal and culinary services. That schools that top this list have a program in personal and culinary services in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Alaska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in Alaska

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Alaska list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified associates’s personal and culinary services students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Personal & Culinary Services at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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 #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Personal & Culinary Services Major in Alaska list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s personal and culinary services degrees to 6 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%.

Full University of Alaska Anchorage Personal & Culinary Services Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Personal & Culinary Services

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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