2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Alaska to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.
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Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Anchorage the most popular school in Alaska for students working on their graduate certificate. 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.
Of those students who received their degree, 83% were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAA does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 92% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
You’ll be in good company if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska list. This medium-sized public school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 39 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 69% were women.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at UAF. In fact, around 87% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Out of the 4 schools in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Southeast landed the # 3 spot on the list. Juneau, Alaska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 31 students in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 77% were women.
UAS does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In fact, around 91% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Alaska Pacific University is a great place for students working on their graduate certificate. Alaska Pacific is located in Anchorage, Alaska and has a very small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 graduate certificates to qualified students.
Around 79% of those degree recipients were women.
Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Alaska Pacific. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 4 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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