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Where will your journey take the world?
Here at the 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø, 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 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø 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
7,486
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 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø 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 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø lab trying to use local materials for concrete, and donations that fund circumpolar music events and studies of ancient Beringia.
As the dark season begins, more light
November 20, 2025
It's November in Fairbanks, when the sun reminds you of where you're leaving your bootprints on the planet.
Sikuliaq embarks on its first journey to Antarctica
November 20, 2025
The research vessel Sikuliaq will begin a long journey to Antarctica this week, marking a new era for the Seward-based ship and its crew. The ship, which has been owned by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by the 51·çÁ÷¹ÙÍø College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences since 2014, has largely been used in waters around Alaska and the Pacific Northwest for the past decade. Starting early next year, the vessel's duties will temporarily shift to Antarctica for the first time.
Land acknowledgment
We acknowledge the Alaska 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.