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2023 Best Value Trade School Associate Degree Schools in Alaska
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for trade school students. 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.
The Best Value Trade School Associate Degree Schools in Alaska ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Trade Associate Degree Schools in Alaska
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Our analysis found University of Alaska Anchorage to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a associate degree in Alaska. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, the fairly large public school handed out 581 associate degree awards in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UAA are $21,635 per year. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $18,349 in student loans.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at UAA. In fact, around 87% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2020-2021.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UAA is ranked #1 for overall quality in Alaska.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 1 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%.
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