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Public College

Alaska Vocational
Technical Center

Public College in Seward, AK. Median 10-year earnings $51,083.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Alaska Vocational Technical Center · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$51,083
Federal loan default
0%
Green Flags
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Academics

Full-time retention
92%
Transfer-out rate
Student:faculty
12:1

This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. Retention is strong at 92%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 12:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a public short-program institution, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 1,070 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$13,574
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
70%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
7%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 147 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $13,574 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $9,485 while those at $75–110k pay $20,281. 70% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,466 — common but not automatic. Only 7% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.

Entering first-year students

A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.

% receiving grants
60%
Average grant
$5,878

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 116 students

Net price by family income

The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.

Family income band Average net price
$0–30k $9,485
$30–48k $13,136
$48–75k $13,936
$75–110k $20,281
$110k+

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 10 of these 147 students, totalling $68,867 — an average of $6,887 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Kenai Peninsula Borough) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$993/mo
1 bedroom
$1,000/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$1,312/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
14
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

Compare Alaska Vocational Technical Center with peer institutions

How we evaluate Alaska Vocational Technical Center

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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