This study is flawed. Your pay scale is from just the Alaska Department of Labor according to the graphics and other Alaska only sources. The national average shows that having a college degree vastly improved a person's pay. This chart only shows Alaskans that returned or remained in Alaska. Nothing about graduates who left the state. I would be interested also in the ones who did not graduate. They are part of the success and failure of the schools too. What is the unemployment percentage? It would also be interesting to see what jobs students are leaving state for and what jobs they are getting degrees in and not coming back to Alaska. I believe oil may not be our biggest resource export. It might be our children and their talents. Maybe if the Alaska University system is going to make cuts they should look into what jobs Alaska needs filled and what jobs Alaskan kids left the state to learn.