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Community college transfer in Alaska

What Alaska guarantees when you move from a community college to a public university, where to check how your classes transfer, and how students at each public community and technical college did.

Statewide transfer rules

Whether Alaska has these four statewide rules, as of July 2022. Rules change, and many colleges have their own agreements on top of these, so confirm with a transfer adviser.

An associate degree transfers as a whole
No statewide rule
Finish a transfer associate degree and public universities in the state accept it as a block, usually entering you as a junior.
A general-education core that transfers
Yes
A set of general-education courses that public colleges in the state agree to accept together.
Common course numbers
No statewide rule
The same course has the same number at every public college, so it is easy to see what matches.
Reverse transfer
No statewide rule
If you transfer before finishing your associate degree, credits you earn at the university can be sent back so you still get it.
Source: Education Commission of the States, Alaska profile (Transfer and Articulation 2022)

Public community and technical colleges (2)

Public colleges in Alaska that awarded associate degrees in the latest federal data, A to Z. "Eight years later" follows everyone who started there, full-time or part-time, first-time or not.

"Earned a degree or certificate there" and "Left for another college before finishing" are where students stood eight years after starting, from the federal Outcome Measures survey. Students who earned an associate degree and then transferred count under the first number, so the second only counts students who left before finishing. Average net price is what students paid per year after grants. Data from College Scorecard, pulled November 6, 2026.

Where this comes from

Statewide rules are from the Education Commission of the States's Alaska profile in Transfer and Articulation 2022, published July 2022. College figures are from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard; open a college for its full page and source links. See the transfer guide for what transfer can save and how to keep your credits.