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Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

$18,303 Avg Tuition & Fees*

It's not easy to decide which business program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Business Degree Central has created the <nil> to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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. 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.

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

Top Value Business Master's Degree Schools in Alaska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Alaska Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska
41 Total Awards
#1 in Quality in Alaska
$24,496 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Alaska Anchorage to be the best value school for business students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Alaska. UAA is located in Anchorage, Alaska and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 41 master’s degrees to qualified students.

UAA graduate students pay an average of $24,496 in tuition and fees each 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. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 92% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

UAA not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our list.

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#2

Alaska Pacific University

Anchorage, Alaska
34 Total Awards
#2 in Quality in Alaska
$12,110 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Alaska Pacific University is a great place for business students working on their master’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this very small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out master’s degrees to 34 students in 2020-2021.

Alaska Pacific graduate students pay an average of $12,110 in tuition and fees each year.

If you are interested in distance education, Alaska Pacific is an excellent choice, since graduate classes are offered online.

Alaska Pacific did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 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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