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Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø, 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 ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø campus
11:1
student-faculty
ratio
35,000+
alumni
Where you'll learn.
Wilderness surrounds ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø, yet highways, airlines, fiber and satellites firmly connect it to the world. So you can attend and earn your degree online from anywhere.
In ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø, 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
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 ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø Four. Plus, watch a video about a Ph.D. student who studies the aurora.
New website improves Juneau flood preparedness
May 30, 2025
A new flood preparedness website for Juneau residents is now live. The Juneau Glacial Flood Dashboard was developed by the University of Alaska Southeast and the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. The first-of-its-kind, publicly accessible website shares interactive flood inundation maps and provides valuable flood forecasting information for the Mendenhall Valley under different glacial lake outburst flood scenarios.
LARS to host birthday bash for baby muskoxen, reindeer
May 30, 2025
The ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø' Large Animal Research Station will introduce its new reindeer and muskox calves at its annual Birthday Bash from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 7.
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations on whose ancestral lands our campuses reside.
In ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø, our Troth Yeddha’ campus is located on the ancestral lands
of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River.