2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Alaska

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Social Work is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 57,401 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Alaska, there were 74 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in social work. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in social work.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Social Work in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s list. UAF is a medium-sized school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 25 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Social Work at University of Alaska Fairbanks

2

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Social Work Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s list. This fairly large school is located in Anchorage, Alaska, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s social work degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Social Work 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.

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