2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 141,695 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, general psychology is the 4th most popular major in the United States.

Across Alaska, there were 109 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Alaska” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in general psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska doctor’s degree psychology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Alaska

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 4 doctorate’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Psychology at UAF

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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 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school handed out 6 degrees to qualified doctorate’s psychology 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 UAA General Psychology Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology

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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