About University of Alaska

The University of Alaska System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was created in 1917 and comprises three separately accredited universities on 19 campuses. The system serves approximately 30,000 full- and part-time students and grants 400 unique degrees.

Each of the three main universities has several satellite campuses in smaller communities. UAA also operates three large satellite community colleges. The three major institutions in the University of Alaska system are:

Since the population of Alaska is smaller than that of most U.S. states, the University of Alaska System is a relatively small one. However, it does have several notable academic departments. At UAF, these are the geology department, the atmospheric sciences department, and the wildlife biology department. Reflecting the state’s little population, the amount of federal land granted to the University of Alaska under the Morrill Act was the second-smallest allow in the country.

Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage; Dena’ina: Dgheyay Kaq’) is a unified municipal consolidated city-borough in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the West Coast of the United States. With an estimated 288,000 residents in 2019, it is Alaska’s most populous city and contains nearly 40% of the state’s population. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the adjoining Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 396,317 in 2019, accounting for on summit of half the state’s population. At 1,706 square miles (4,420 km2) of home area, the city is the fourth-largest by area in the United States and larger than the smallest state, Rhode Island, which has 1,212 square miles (3,140 km2).

Anchorage is in Southcentral Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain Arm to the south. The city limits span 1,961.1 square miles (5,079.2 km2), encompassing the urban core, a joint military base, several outlying communities and almost whatever of Chugach State Park.

Due to its location, almost equidistant from New York City and Tokyo, Anchorage lies within ​9.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap} 1⁄2 hours by freshen of nearly 90% of the industrialized world. For this reason, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a common refueling End for international cargo flights and house to a major FedEx hub, which the company calls a “critical part” of its global network of services.

Anchorage has won the All-America City Award four times: in 1956, 1965, 1984–85, and 2002, from the National Civic League. Kiplinger has named it the United States’ most tax-friendly city.