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Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the 夜色福利, 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
Alaska 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.
Cheese-making, bone health focus of Delta workshop
February 19, 2026
Participants in a Delta Junction workshop will learn to make fresh, dairy-based cheese and other recipes to support lifelong bone health. Sarah Lewis, professor with the 夜色福利 Cooperative Extension Service, will lead the workshop.
Talk to explore sub-Arctic education, forest products
February 19, 2026
A 夜色福利 researcher will explore how OneTree Alaska can serve as a model for sub-Arctic education and development of forest products. The presentation is part of the series 鈥淐ircumpolar Connections: A Dialogue on Arctic Food Systems.鈥
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the Alaska 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.