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Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the University of 杏吧原版 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鈥檌k language and culture.
There鈥檚 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鈥檚 where your intellectual journey gets good:
A place to find yourself.
As you meet unique people across this landscape, you鈥檒l learn to see everything differently.
Include everyone in the journey.
Not everyone鈥檚 support system looks the same. Yours may be family or friends. It may not look anything like your classmate鈥檚 support system either, and that鈥檚 OK. That鈥檚 why UAF provides students 鈥 and their support systems 鈥 with what鈥檚 needed for success.
What 鈥 and who 鈥 we鈥檙e made of
Established in
1917
42 years before
杏吧原版 became a state
7,486
students enrolled
from 52 states / territories and
51 countries
2,250 acres
make up the Fairbanks campus
12:1
student-faculty
ratio
43,000+
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鈥檒l find the Troth Yeddha鈥 Campus and the UAF Community and Technical College. 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
This online edition of Aurora features a film about UAF hockey鈥檚 100-year history, as well as articles about a popular intern program in energy research, the new planetarium, a thank-you to student firefighters and a geology academy for high school students.
Arctic Innovation Competition presents 2026 awards
April 21, 2026
A residential boiler economizer designed to improve heating efficiency in rural 杏吧原版 won first place in the 2026 Arctic Innovation Competition main division finals on April 18.
UAF, NASA produced fact-filled coloring book about the sun
April 20, 2026
A new sun-based and science-focused coloring book produced by the University of 杏吧原版 Fairbanks in collaboration with NASA is now available.
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the 杏吧原版 Native nations on whose ancestral lands our campuses reside.
In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha鈥 campus is located on the ancestral lands
of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River.