2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sociology 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 38,475 people earned their degree in sociology, making the major the 25th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, sociology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,426 and had an average of $24,587 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 5 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,682 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 sociology graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in sociology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sociology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sociology in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

$37,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sociology 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 full report on Sociology at UAA

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sociology Major in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a public institution located in Fairbanks, Alaska. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sociology at UAF

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sociology in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sociology

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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