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Start your journey here.
Where will your journey take you? How will you make use of nearly 22 hours of daylight?
Will you use it to uncover solutions to challenges small, global and everything in
between?
And what will you make of the world after making friends with genuine, easygoing people
in a place like no other?
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is the place to start your journey.
Apply for admission online.
We'll guide you through it, step by step.
Admissions counselors can answer
many of your questions about UAF.
Schedule a campus visit or
take a virtual tour.
From accounting to Yup’ik language and culture.
There’s a program for you here, and myriad minors, majors, degrees and certificates for you to earn. Perform research alongside academic powerhouses. Find and explore your voice in the arts. Make even more of your military service. Here’s where your intellectual journey gets good:
Connect with a current student.
As you meet unique people across this landscape, you’ll learn to see everything differently.
No matter where you’re from or how you attend, you’ll find your place here.
Include everyone in the journey.
Your base camp may be family or may be friends, and it may not look anything like your classmate’s or roommate’s. That’s why UAF provides students — and all their base camp people — with what’s needed for success.
What — and who — we’re made of
Established in
1917
42 years before
Alaska became a state
7,471
students enrolled
from 49 states and
53 countries
2,250 acres
make up the Fairbanks campus
10:1
student-faculty
ratio
35,000+
alumni
Find your place.
Beneath the shimmering aurora. By the glow of your computer, anywhere in the world. Here, there are no limits to how you can learn.
When you reach Fairbanks, you’ll know you’re someplace fundamental. Denali glimmers and darkens. Migratory birds wing in for summers that touch 90 degrees. Moose hunker down in winters that reach negative 40.
Wilderness surrounds Fairbanks, yet highways, airlines, fiber and satellites firmly connect it to the world. So you can attend and earn your degree online from anywhere.
In Fairbanks, you’ll find the Troth Yeddha’ Campus, the UAF Community and Technical College and the Interior Alaska Campus. Beyond, regional campuses serve Kotzebue, Bethel, Nome and Dillingham. Research sites can take you to Kodiak in the south, Juneau in the east and Toolik Lake above the Arctic Circle.
News and events
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Read about exploring one of the earliest photographic techniques, sniffing out carbon flow in an Interior Alaska swamp, tracing invisible aquatic DNA and much more in the fall 2022 Aurora.
Toolik launches climate education program for underserved students
March 21, 2023
Twelve high school students will visit Alaska's remote Arctic during summer 2023 to learn about the effects of climate change on the region.
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Dozens descend upon Alaska to measure snow
March 21, 2023
Five scientists have padded their way on snowshoes into the middle of this frozen swamp in Fairbanks. They are here to measure the pillowy, perfect snowpack that has fallen here, flake by flake, since last October.
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Mar24
Kayla Lar-Son: Indigenous Scholar Research
Location: Online
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations on whose ancestral lands our campuses reside.
In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha’ campus is located on the ancestral lands
of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River.