2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Sciences in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in Alaska for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Physical Sciences is the 19th most popular major in the country with 50,306 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,880 and had an average of $22,620 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 60 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in Alaska for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular physical sciences programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in Alaska for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in Alaska for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Sciences in Alaska

1

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 #1 for the Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in Alaska for a Master’s. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 18 degrees to qualified masters’s physical sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Physical Sciences at UAF

2

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in Alaska for a Master’s. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s physical sciences 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%.

Read more about Physical Sciences at University of Alaska Anchorage

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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 NASA.