2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Alaska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking - to help you make that decision.

With 134,326 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, general psychology is the 4th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, general psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,999 and had an average of $26,247 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 107 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,050 and $21,375 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 99 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,942 and $21,197 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general psychology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general psychology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Alaska

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

#1 in overall quality

$10,333 Average Net Price

$31,133 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, this medium-sized public school handed out 38 degrees to qualified bachelors’s psychology students in 2019-2020.

UAF also made our “Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks is $10,333 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Psychology students.

Read more about General Psychology at University of Alaska Fairbanks

#2

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

#2 in overall quality

$12,995 Average Net Price

$36,717 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the #2 spot on the list. UAA is a fairly large school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 61 bachelors’s psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

UAA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska” list. It costs about $12,995 for Alaska Bachelor’s Degree Psychology students per year to attend University of Alaska Anchorage.

Full University of Alaska Anchorage General Psychology Report

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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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