UAF Home
Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks, you'll master your fields of study, make lifelong friends, explore an environment like no other and contribute to research that will change lives everywhere.
Welcome to life at the top.
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:
A place to find yourself.
As you meet unique people across this landscape, you’ll learn to see everything differently.
Include everyone in the journey.
Not everyone’s support system looks the same. Yours may be family or friends. It may not look anything like your classmate’s support system either, and that’s OK. That’s why UAF provides students — and their support systems — with what’s needed for success.
What — and who — we’re made of
Established in
1917
42 years before
Alaska became a state
7,451
students enrolled
from 49 states and
58 countries
2,250 acres
make up the Fairbanks campus
11:1
student-faculty
ratio
35,000+
alumni
Where you'll learn.
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. Â鶹¹ÙÍø sites can take you to Kodiak in the south, Juneau in the east and Toolik Lake above the Arctic Circle.
News and events
Thirty years of writing about Alaska science
January 30, 2025
When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: "It's the best job in Alaska."
Â鶹¹ÙÍø reveals extent of Kachemak Bay's surface cloudiness
January 30, 2025
Scientists have produced the most comprehensive analysis to date of glacier-driven cloudiness on the surface of Kachemak Bay, home to a rich variety of marine life and an important fish and shellfish rearing area.
Chancellor's Forum on UAF's Vision
Chancellor Dan White will host a forum on UAF's Vision on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 1 p.m. in the Davis Concert Hall. The chancellor will present and then facilitate a round table discussion with members of his core cabinet about UAF's Vision.
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.