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Quality--excellent education
As Alaska's top teaching and research university and the state's only Ph.D.-granting institution, our programs attract world-class faculty. You'll find them published in professional journals as well as quoted in popular magazines.
Our full-time faculty of about 600 teaches most classes, even introductory courses, which means you are able to start building relationships with professors from your very first semester here. And because class sizes are small, you won't be just a face in the crowd. Faculty members here know their students.
Research--leading the leaders
If it's about the North, chances are it's taught right here. UAF is Alaska's research university and a world leader in arctic research. In fact, UAF was recently listed among the top five small research institutes in the country. With more than a dozen research centers and $113 million in annual research funding, UAF is the research engine of Alaska.
UAF's location in the heart of Alaska makes it ideally situated to conduct research on everything circumpolar. Research focuses on understanding the challenges and opportunities of the North--studies on global climate change, avian flu and cold climate engineering, among other topics, place UAF at the forefront of international arctic research.
Undergraduate and graduate students get one-on-one time with faculty, and even collaborate on research. Field work is really in the field, or in the river, on the glacier or up the mountain.
Value--great bargain
A great education and outstanding research opportunities don't mean much if they aren't affordable. For an education this good, you'd expect a higher price tag, but UAF students pay one of the lowest tuition rates in the country. And UAF offers a full range of financial aid resources to help pay for your education.
Location--perfectly placed
To its people, there's no better home than Alaska. Our location defines us: what we are, what we teach, what we research. As America's arctic university we learn and teach in a classroom and laboratory that encompass more than 360 million acres.
Located in the heart of Alaska, surrounded by wilderness areas and just two hours from Denali National Park, Fairbanks is the perfect starting point for exploring the wilderness of Alaska.
- Margaret Murie - Named the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" by the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society, was a naturalist, author, adventurer, and conservationist who helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act and who was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She was the recipient of the Audubon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States.
- Jay Hammond - A politician who was Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. As governor during the biggest economic boom in Alaska's history, he oversaw the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and the creation of the state's famous program, the Alaska Permanent Fund. The Permanent Fund as envisioned by Mr. Hammond is a program to invest oil royalties to cover future state budgets, but has since the early 1980s also paid out annual dividends to residents of the state of Alaska.
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Annual temperatures fluctuate between 85F in July to -50F in January! The longest day of the year in June has more than 21 hours of sun, while the shortest day has less than 3 hours.
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Annual bonfire "Starvation Gulch" celebrates the return of students to the university campus for the new academic year. Student halls and organizations compete by building creative wood "sculptures" made of wood pallets and shipping containers. Then the fire department sets them ablaze!
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