2023 Best Value Teaching Master'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.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Alaska to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
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Top Value Teaching Master's Degree Schools in Alaska
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Fairbanks the best value school in Alaska for teaching students working on their master’s degree. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 44 students in 2020-2021.
UAF graduate students pay an average of $25,248 in tuition and fees each year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at UAF. 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.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UAF is ranked #1 for overall quality in Alaska.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Alaska Southeast is a great place for teaching students working on their master’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. UAS is a small public school situated in Juneau, Alaska. It awarded 93 master’s degrees 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. In 2019-2020 about 91% of the graduate 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, UAS is ranked #2 for overall quality in Alaska.
The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Alaska Anchorage helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Alaska. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UAA are $24,496 a year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAA does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 92% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
UAA did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools in Alaska list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 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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