2023 Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Alaska to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska

37 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Alaska

$25,248 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Alaska Fairbanks to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Alaska. Located in Fairbanks, Alaska, the medium-sized public school handed out 37 graduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

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

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAF does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 87% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

UAF also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska list, coming in at #1.

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#2

University of Alaska Southeast

Juneau, Alaska

31 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in Alaska

$24,783 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Alaska Southeast helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Alaska. UAS is a small public school situated in Juneau, Alaska. It awarded 31 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.

UAS graduate students pay an average of $24,783 in tuition and fees each year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAS does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 91% took at least some of their classes online.

UAS also made our Best Teaching Graduate Certificate Schools in Alaska list, coming in at #2.

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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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