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2023 Best Value Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Schools Ranked
$24,842 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Alaska to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate 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.

Top Value Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska
40 Total Awards
$24,496 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Alaska Anchorage to be the best value school for students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Alaska. UAA is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 40 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UAA are $24,496 a year.

UAA does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. 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 also made our Best Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska list, coming in at #2.

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#2

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska
39 Total Awards
$25,248 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Alaska Fairbanks helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value schools in Alaska. University of Alaska Fairbanks is a medium-sized public school located in Fairbanks, Alaska that handed out 39 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UAF are $25,248 a year.

Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at UAF. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 87% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

UAF also took the #1 spot in our Best Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska rankings.

Read full report on University of Alaska Fairbanks

31 Total Awards
$24,783 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Alaska Southeast helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value schools in Alaska. UAS is a small public school situated in Juneau, Alaska. It awarded 31 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UAS are $24,783 per year.

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at UAS. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 91% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

UAS also took the #3 spot in our Best Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska rankings.

Read full report on University of Alaska Southeast

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 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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