University of Alaska Anchorage

University of Alaska Anchorage is a public university located in Anchorage, AK. It has a rather high acceptance rate of 81%. It is a mid-sized institution with 7,322 full-time undergrads enrolled. Alaska Anchorage offers 91 possible majors across eight disciplines. The most in-demand choices are Liberal Arts and Humanities, Nursing, and Psychology, which account for 22% of students. Its medical assistant technology, math, chemistry, anthropology and pharmacy programs are all ranked first in Alaska. Additionally, Alaska Anchorage comes in 1st in AK on our best college athletics and best greek life lists. For those of you living in Alaska, full price tuition runs $8,151 per year. Students located in other states must shell out $26,000. None the less, roughly 4/5ths of Alaska Anchorage undergrads are awarded scholarship or grant funding. 31% of University of Alaska Anchorage undergraduates hang in there to commencement day, all set to enter the next act in their lives: full-time employment. The median alumnus goes on to make a salary of $36,000 two years after university. After another four years in the labor force, their median annual salary grows 26.1% to $45,400, which is 13.2% over the national median salary. Applying students might also like to be conscious of the fact that your high school transcript is required to apply and Alaska Anchorage does not have early decision. Further, the student-faculty ratio is 15:1. Related to your wallet, be aware that if your household earns over $110k, you can expect to pay around $16,504 annually for tuition. Our research team rated Alaska Anchorage a 7.47 for its student life and its campus safety rating on School Authority is 8.24. To conclude, 1/4 of graduates earn a starting salary of at least $55,300 and 86% of graduates are gainfully employed two years after graduation.