The University of Alaska is a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant, and Space Grant university founded in 1922 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The UA System consists of three main universities, each with several satellite campuses in smaller communities. They are: University of Alaska Fairbanks, the main campus; University of Alaska Anchorage; and University of Alaska Southeast (in Juneau).

The University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) is home to the Geophysical Institute, which operates the Poker Flat rocket range; and to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center .

The University of Alaska schools are relatively small, but do have several world-class departments. At UAF, these are most notably the mathematics department, and those natural sciences which take advantage of UA's unique location, including space physics and wildlife biology . It also competes on a national level in several sports.

The University of Alaska is also among the most inexpensive universities in the United States.

External link

• Univerisity of Alaska system web site http://www.alaska.edu