2023 Best Master's Degree Schools in Alaska

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Master's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Alaska to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. The factors used to develop this ranking include those related to how in-demand the school us, the overall quality of the school, and post-graduation wages, and more.

View our full ranking methodology.

Top Master's Degree Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Southeast

Juneau, Alaska

$12,318 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Southeast the best school in Alaska for students working on their master’s degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAS does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 91% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#2

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

$12,148 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Anchorage landed the # 2 spot on the list.

Online graduate courses are available at UAA, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 92% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#3

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

$12,958 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Master’s Degree Schools in Alaska list.

One thing to take note of is that UAF does offer online graduate classes in some areas. In 2019-2020 about 87% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

References

• Read more about our ranking methodology.
• 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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