2023 Best Value Teaching Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alaska

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

It's not easy to decide which teaching program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools and bootcamps with offerings that you might find attractive.

The Best Value Teaching Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Alaska to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Teaching Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Southeast

Juneau, Alaska

25 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Alaska

$24,950 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Alaska Southeast to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Alaska. Located in Juneau, Alaska, the small public school awarded 25 diplomas to qualifed bachelor’s degree students in 2020-2021.

UAS undergraduate students pay an average of $24,950 in tuition and fees each year. Bachelor’s Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $27,541 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAS does offer online classes for certain majors. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 83% took at least some of their classes online.

UAS also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alaska rankings.

Full University of Alaska Southeast Report

#2

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

32 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in Alaska

$25,654 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of Alaska Fairbanks helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Alaska. UAF is a medium-sized public school situated in Fairbanks, Alaska. It awarded 32 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UAF are $25,654 per year. On average, bachelor’s degree students take out $27,370 in loans while pursuing their degree.

One thing to take note of is that UAF does offer online classes in some areas. In 2019-2020 about 90% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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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