2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts 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 “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 149,215 visual and performing arts students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, visual and performing arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,700 and had an average of $25,051 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alaska, there were 62 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,072 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 57 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in visual and performing arts. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in visual and performing arts.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for alaska bachelor’s degree visual & performing arts students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Alaska

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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 #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s list. University of Alaska Anchorage is a fairly large public school situated in Anchorage, Alaska. It awarded 33 bachelors’s visual and performing arts 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%.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at University of Alaska Anchorage

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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Visual & Performing Arts Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Alaska Fairbanks is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 bachelors’s visual and performing arts degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at University of Alaska Fairbanks

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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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