2023 Most Popular Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in Alaska
A healthcare student has lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Most Popular Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Alaska to see which master's degree programs were the most popular for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.
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Most Popular Healthcare Master's Degree Schools in Alaska
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Anchorage the most popular school in Alaska for healthcare students working on their master’s degree. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 48 students in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 92% were women.
Online graduate courses are available at UAA, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 92% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Out of the 3 schools in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, Alaska Pacific University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Alaska Pacific University is a very small private not-for-profit school located in Anchorage, Alaska that handed out 7 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 57% were women.
Since the graduate programs at Alaska Pacific are primarily online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
Out of the 3 schools in Alaska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alaska Fairbanks landed the # 3 spot on the list. Fairbanks, Alaska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out master’s degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAF does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 87% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
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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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