2023 Best Value Undergraduate Certificate 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.

The Best Value Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Alaska ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alaska to see which undergraduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

69 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Alaska

$25,228 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Anchorage the best value school in Alaska for students working on their undergraduate certificate. UAA is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 69 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UAA are $25,228 per year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $10,416 in student loans.

UAA does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 95% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

UAA did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Alaska list.

Read full report on University of Alaska Anchorage

#2

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

167 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in Alaska

$25,654 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Alaska that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, the medium-sized public school awarded 167 diplomas to qualifed undergraduate certificate students in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at UAF are $25,654 a year.

One thing to take note of is that UAF does offer online classes in some areas. In fact, around 90% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

UAF also took the #2 spot in our Best Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Alaska rankings.

Full University of Alaska Fairbanks Report

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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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