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Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, 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
ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ 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 ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ 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
Read about the gift of a gold collection to the museum, students seeking new mining methods and a professor's book about the murder convictions — ultimately dismissed — of the Fairbanks Four. Plus, watch a video about a Ph.D. student who studies the aurora.
Susan Harry keeps a close eye on pollen in Interior ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥
April 25, 2025
For the past 25 years, Susan Harry has been peering into a microscope every spring to count and classify minuscule grains of pollen. It's a task that can take from a few minutes up to an hour and a half at the height of pollen season, in May and early June.
New book explores the skies with Dene knowledge
April 24, 2025
Chris Cannon, an assistant professor at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ College of Indigenous Studies, has published "In the Footsteps of the Traveller: The Astronomy of Northern Dene."
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ 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.