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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.
Raven roosts shrouded in mystery
March 30, 2023
Last week, while getting ready to climb into a bunk, I heard the yell of a raven outside. And then another, and a few more. I pulled on my boots.
Read article
New method of monitoring shore ice could improve public safety
March 29, 2023
Specialized portable radar could serve as an early warning system to reduce risk for humans working on shorefast sea ice, according to a recently published study.
Read article
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Feb07
Time: 12:06 p.m. - 11:59 p.m. -
Apr01
Time: 10:14 a.m. - 10:15 p.m. -
Apr01
Boozeless Bash-Alcohol Awareness Carnival
Location: Wood Center
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 9:00 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.