The University of Alaska System includes the University of Alaska campuses in Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau, as well as the Prince William Sound Community College in Valdez. The system serves nearly 35,000 full and part-time students studying among 500 degree, certificate or endorsement programs. Study areas include short-course workforce training, associate degrees, bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as well as doctorates. Programs include a wide array of the sciences, engineering, teacher and early childhood education, business, journalism and communications, aviation, health occupations, history, English, the arts and humanities.
The flagship University of Alaska Fairbanks, established in 1917 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, is a public research university and a land grant, sea grant and space grant institution. With approximately 9,992 undergraduate and graduate students combined and 670 faculty members, the institution is home to seven major research units: the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station; the Geophysical Institute, which operates the Poker Flat Research Range; 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.
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