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Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ 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 ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ 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
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ 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’ll find the Troth Yeddha’ Campus and the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ 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
Read about 50 years of research at Toolik Field Station, a ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ lab trying to use local materials for concrete, and donations that fund circumpolar music events and studies of ancient Beringia.
State, Cooperative Extension offer free grower safety course
December 10, 2025
The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Department of Environmental Conservation and the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will hold a Produce Safety Alliance grower training in January.
ACEP internship program builds ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s next workforce
December 10, 2025
The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Center for Energy and Power summer internship program is accepting applications for summer 2026. The program offers undergraduate interns opportunities to engage in projects in marine, geothermal or high-latitude solar energy, heat pumps, cyberinfrastructure and data analysis.
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ 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.