The University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks) is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. It is the flagship university in the Alaska education system and is often referred to simply as Alaska or UAF.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received national land, ocean, and air grants, as well as participating in the Solar System Grant program at Oregon State University.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks was signed into law in 1956 and formally established in 1917 as the Alaska Agricultural College and Mining College. Classes began in 1922.
There are seven specialized research units at the University of Alaska Fairbanks: the Agricultural and Forestry Experimental Center, the Geographic Research Institute, the International Arctic Research Center, the Arctic Supercomputer Research Center, the Arctic Biology Research Center, the Oceanography Research Center, and the Northern Engineering Research Institute.
University of Alaska Fairbanks can award associate’s degree, undergraduate degree, master’s degree and doctor’s degree, professional setting is extensive, at the same time offers network course, in order to facilitate the majority of students’ independent study.