2023 Best Value Doctor's Degree Schools in Alaska
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
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. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Doctor's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Alaska to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Doctor's Degree Schools in Alaska
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Anchorage the best value school in Alaska for students working on their doctor’s degree. UAA is a fairly large public school situated in Anchorage, Alaska. It awarded 9 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UAA are $24,496 per year.
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. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 92% took at least some of their classes online.
UAA did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Doctor’s Degree Schools in Alaska list.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Alaska Fairbanks is a great place for students working on their doctor’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, the medium-sized public school handed out 39 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UAF are $25,248 a year.
Online graduate courses are available at UAF, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 87% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UAF is ranked #2 for overall quality in Alaska.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.
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%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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