2023 Best Value Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Alaska

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Best Value Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Alaska ranking.

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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

194 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Alaska

$25,228 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Anchorage the best value school in Alaska for healthcare students working on their associate degree. UAA is a public institution located in Anchorage, Alaska. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 194 associate degrees in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UAA are $25,228 per year. On average, associate degree students take out $21,255 in loans while pursuing their degree.

UAA does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 95% took at least some of their classes online.

UAA also took the #1 spot in our Best Healthcare Associate Degree Schools in Alaska rankings.

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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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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