As a comprehensive, open access, public institution offering everything from short-term workforce credentials to graduate programs, UAA invites students to define their journey, create their community, and prepare to make an impact in Alaska and beyond. Striving to be a place where every person who wants an education can be successful, UAA transforms the lives of its students and communities, while honoring our locations on the ancestral lands of Alaska’s First Peoples.
The University of Alaska Anchorage transforms lives with over 150 academic certificate and degree programs, student-focused support services, and a dedicated and talented faculty.
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From 13 competitive NCAA teams to recreation and intramural and club sports, students have the opportunity to excel in athletics at every level. The Alaska Airlines Center and Seawolf Sports Complex offer recreation as well as hosting community events and concerts. Students can take advantage of cheering for SeawolfNation with free tickets to many games.
UAA is a hub for cutting-edge theoretical and applied research in health, engineering, and the physical and social sciences. In nearly every discipline, undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to join research teams and collaborate with experienced faculty mentors.
Explore the wide variety of services and resources available at UAA to help promote your academic and personal success and well-being. From academic advising to student clubs and residence life, we're here to help you have an amazing university experience.
UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples. Alaska Native academic programs at UAA provide courses, minors, certificates and degrees. Alaska Native student support programs provide centers for belonging across UAA.
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UAA and Willamette University College of Law, located in Salem, Ore., have partnered to offer a new "3+3" program that will allow Alaska students to complete a bachelor's degree and a law degree in six years, rather than the usual seven.
As the world's population blows past seven billion, UAA molecular biologist Eric Bortz says we can expect more infectious outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. Bortz and a group of undergraduates are working to better understand how some viruses manage to evade our immune system.
Shannon L. Brown has been writing since her student days, when she helped launch the campus newspaper. After a long career writing for various magazines, she recently published her first book, a children's mystery novel called 'The Feather Chase.'
Professor Steve Langdon was named professor emeritus at this year's commencement ceremony. There are many more projects in the hopper before this anthropologist truly retires, though.
The UAA Campus Bookstore, University Center Bookstore and UAA Perk will be closed Thursday, June 26-Monday, June 30, to conduct physical year-end inventory. Regular hours (8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.) will resume Tuesday, July 1.