The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is a public research university located in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Buy a University of Alaska Fairbanks diploma. Order a UAF degree. Make a UAF degree and transcript. It is the flagship institution of the University of Alaska system. Formerly the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, UAF officially began offering classes in 1922.

UAF comprises seven research units: the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station; the Geophysical Institute (which operates the Poker Flat Research Range, a renowned rocket launch center); the International Arctic Research Center; the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; the Institute of Arctic Biology; the Institute of Marine Science; and the Institute of Northern Engineering.

Located just 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Fairbanks campus is ideally suited for research in polar climate, biology, and physics. The university is world-renowned in several areas, most notably Arctic biology, Arctic engineering, geophysics, supercomputing, and Arctic Indigenous studies. The University of Alaska system’s Arctic Museum is also located at the Fairbanks campus.