2023 Most Popular Master's Degree 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.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Master's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Alaska to see which ones were the most popular master's degree 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 Master's Degree Schools in Alaska
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Fairbanks the most popular school in Alaska for students working on their master’s degree. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, the medium-sized public school handed out 195 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 56% were women.
UAF 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. 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.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Schools in Alaska list. UAA is located in Anchorage, Alaska and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 190 master’s degrees to qualified students.
Around 65% of those degree recipients were women.
UAA 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 92% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Alaska Southeast is a great place for students working on their master’s degree. University of Alaska Southeast is a small public school located in Juneau, Alaska that handed out 122 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 71% of those degree recipients were women.
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.
The excellent master’s degree programs at Alaska Pacific University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular schools in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, the very small private not-for-profit school handed out 59 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 69% were women.
Since the graduate programs at Alaska Pacific are primarily online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
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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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