Colleges in Alaska

Every college in Alaska that reports to the federal government: 9 schools, 4 of them public. For each one, what a year actually costs after grant aid, the share of applicants admitted, the share of students who finish, and what graduates earn ten years after starting. All of it from public federal data, none of it ranked by us.

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Four-year colleges in Alaska


Palmer	Private	$17,508	not reported	38%	not reported
Anchorage	Private	$21,616	96%	47%	$54,271
Anchorage	Private (for-profit)	$34,860	not reported	56%	$35,504
Barrow	Public	$6,743	not reported	46%	$39,541
Anchorage	Public	$15,301	not reported	30%	$51,871
Fairbanks	Public	$10,892	not reported	38%	$48,866
Juneau	Public	$12,357	63%	28%	$48,475

Two-year colleges in Alaska

Community and technical colleges, where the main award is a two-year associate degree. Read the graduation figure here differently: it counts only students who finish at the school they started, so a student who transfers to a four-year college counts as not graduating even though transferring on is usually the entire point.

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		Anchorage	Private (for-profit)	$20,150	not reported	69%	$34,468
		Soldotna	Private	$7,063	92%	11%	$25,787

How to read these numbers. Net price is the average a student pays per year after grant aid, not the sticker price, and it covers only students receiving federal aid. At a public university it is the in-state figure, so if you live elsewhere your own cost will be higher, often much higher. Admitted is the share of applicants offered a place, and it is blank for open-admission schools that do not turn applicants away. Earnings is median pay ten years after a student entered the school, including those who never finished. Every figure is an average across all income levels, so run the school's own net price calculator before you treat any of it as your price - the College Finder links each school's calculator directly.

Data: IPEDS 2024; SAT from IPEDS admissions 2023; College Scorecard released 06/10/2026; financial composite score for fiscal year 2022-23; endowment from IPEDS finance 2022-23 divided by IPEDS 2023 enrollment. Refreshed 2026-08-08.

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Colleges in Alaska

Four-year colleges in Alaska

Two-year colleges in Alaska

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