2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alaska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alaska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Public Administration is the 60th most popular major in the country with 16,905 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, public administration graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $51,352 and had an average of $29,054 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 34 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,309 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 public administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,425 and $0 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alaska

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska master’s degree public admin students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Southeast
Juneau, Alaska

#3 overall quality in Alaska

$56,309 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Southeast. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alaska. This small school is located in Juneau, Alaska, and it awarded 29 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full University of Alaska Southeast Public Administration Report

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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public Admin Major in Alaska. This fairly large school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 5 masters’s public admin degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UAA Public Administration Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Administration

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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