All UAF campuses are tobacco-free as of Dec. 31, 2015.

Fairbanks Campus

The 2,250-acre Fairbanks campus (also known as the Troth Yeddha' Campus) offers limitless opportunities for activity and recreation. The main campus has two lakes and 26 miles of trails as well as a major student recreation complex for indoor sports. Facilities are available for basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, calisthenics, dance, gymnastics and martial arts. There are rifle and pistol ranges; courts for handball, racquetball and squash; a jogging track; a swimming pool; weight training and modern fitness equipment areas; an ice arena for recreational skating and hockey; a special aerobics area; a two-story indoor climbing wall; and an outdoor climbing tower covered with ice in the winter. UAF sponsors intercollegiate athletic teams in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross-country running and skiing, coed rifle, men’s ice hockey and women’s volleyball and swimming.

The Wood Center is the focus of many extracurricular activities. With a games area, an esports center, a bowling alley, a pub, dining facilities and meeting rooms, the Wood Center is a gathering place for the entire university community.

UAF has some of the best scientific, academic and cultural facilities in the state:

• Performances are scheduled almost every weekend during the academic year in Davis Concert Hall or Salisbury Theatre.
• The Rasmuson Library, Alaska’s largest library, offers extensive resource materials in print and online. An array of computer databases provides access to hundreds of academic journals, and internet connections allow students at remote rural sites to use library resources.
• The UA Museum of the North is not only one of the top visitor attractions in the state but also a resource for students. Its vast collections are used for demonstration and comparative studies in classrooms and labs.
• The Fairbanks campus is the statewide university system’s principal research center. Several internationally respected institutes provide students with an opportunity to see science in action and participate in research activities.

Fairbanks Area

Fairbanks, Alaska’s second-largest city, sits on the banks of the Chena River in the heart of Alaska. The city is steeped in a history of riverboat captains and gold seekers. Its character has been shaped by past and present mining, a large military presence, the oil industry and trans-Alaska pipeline, and a thriving university. It is a city where the old quietly blends with the new. Striking modern buildings sit side-by-side with log cabins built in the early part of the last century.

With an area population of some 95,000, Fairbanks offers the conveniences of a big city, and the downtown district is easily accessible from campus via the local bus system and a network of bike trails. Yet millions of acres of rolling hills and spectacular Alaska panoramas are only minutes away. Whether the sport is canoeing, climbing, running, dog mushing, skiing or fishing, nowhere else compares with Alaska. Denali (Koyukon Athabascan for “The High One”), the tallest mountain in North America, is often visible from many UAF residence hall windows. 

Transportation to Fairbanks

Fairbanks is easily accessible by land or air. Anchorage is 365 miles away via the Parks Highway or the Alaska Railroad, and Seattle is 2,300 miles away via the Alaska Highway. Major airlines offer several daily flights between Fairbanks and Anchorage, Seattle and many other destinations.

Community Campuses

In addition to the Fairbanks campus, UAF has community and rural campuses in downtown Fairbanks, Bethel, Dillingham, Kotzebue and Nome. These branches are central to fulfilling the UAF mission of providing educational opportunities throughout the state. Credits earned at any UAF campus or center are recognized at all UAF campuses, meaning that students may change campuses and transfer all UA credits.

Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham

The Bristol Bay Campus serves 32 rural communities in the Bristol Bay region within a 55,000-square-mile area. The campus administrative center is in Dillingham, a town of about 2,000 people located 320 miles west of Anchorage. The campus’s learning center in Unalaska serves communities in the Aleutian Islands, the lower Alaska Peninsula and the Shumagin and Pribilof islands. Another learning center in King Salmon serves the upper Alaska Peninsula communities.

University classes are offered in person and by distance delivery. In addition, the campus hosts a Marine Advisory Program agent. For more information, visit the Bristol Bay Campus website.

Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue

The Chukchi Campus is located 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the shores of the Chukchi Sea. The campus serves Kotzebue, a town of about 3,000 people, as well as 10 smaller villages in a region of more than 36,000 square miles.

Courses are offered by local instructors for some programs, including Inupiaq language and culture, and through distance delivery. For more information, visit the Chukchi Campus website.

Community and Technical College in Fairbanks

The Community and Technical College is a comprehensive community college serving students in Fairbanks and outlying areas across the state of Alaska. Its core purpose is to provide community-driven education to meet the needs for workforce development, academic preparation and lifelong learning. CTC helps prepare Alaskans for Alaska’s jobs.

CTC offers more than 50 certificate and degree programs through nine different locations throughout Fairbanks and the surrounding area.

CTC's downtown location (604 Barnette St.) provides a one-stop shop that enables students to take care of all of their university-related needs in one convenient location. Services include academic and financial aid advising, support to register and pay for courses, and placement testing. Students can even obtain parking passes and their student IDs. CTC's downtown location also contains a tutoring and learning center, open computer labs, and specialized classrooms and labs to support programs in health care, business, cybersecurity and IT support, construction management, early childhood education and paralegal studies.

CTC provides services and education through eight other locations, several of which are specialized facilities equipped with industry-specific equipment and technology to support workforce and hands-on education programs such as culinary arts; EMS/paramedicine; firefighting; law enforcement; oil, gas and mining process technologies; automotive; diesel/heavy equipment; aviation maintenance; and welding.

• Aviation Maintenance Program Hangar: 3504 University Ave. South
• Bunnell House Early Childhood Lab School: 1793 Chatanika Dr.
• Fairbanks Pipeline Training Center: 3600 Cartwright Ct.
• Hutchison Institute of Technology: 3750 Geist Rd.
• University Park Building: 1000 University Ave.
• Offices on Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base
• Partnership office at the Delta Career Advancement Center in Delta Junction

For more information, contact CTC at 907-455-2800 or visit the CTC website.

Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel

The Kuskokwim Campus is located in Bethel and serves approximately 25,000 people across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska. The delta has 47 remote Alaska Native Yup’ik and Cup’ik and Athabascan villages with 56 tribes in a 57,000-square-mile area the size of Illinois. Bethel is a community of about 6,000 people, 80 miles inland on the Kuskokwim River.

KuC offers classes on campus for some programs, such as ethnobotany and rural human services, and through distance delivery. For more information, visit the Kuskokwim Campus website.

Northwest Campus in Nome

Northwest Campus is located in Nome, a community of 3,500 that is the service hub for the 15 villages of the Bering Strait region. This 44,000-square-mile region extends from Shishmaref to Stebbins and includes communities on St. Lawrence and Little Diomede islands. A learning center in Unalakleet serves residents in the southern Norton Sound area.

Courses are taught either by distance delivery or in person for some programs, such as high-latitude range management, which is primarily focused on reindeer herding. For more information, visit the Northwest Campus website or NWC on Facebook.