UAA is the premier university in the heart of Alaska's largest city with campuses throughout Southcentral Alaska. Where culture, innovation and adventure converge, the unique locations provide unparalleled access to industry connections, Arctic research, outdoor recreation and more, facilitating once-in-a-lifetime experiences, groundbreaking education and impactful careers.
UAA offers more than 100 degree and certificate programs that consistently prepare students for success after graduation. State-of-the-art classroom instruction and hands-on learning collide in UAA's innovative academic programs, which feature unique courses that train students to lead Alaska into the future.
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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 an in-depth perspective on contemporary languages, cultures, history, politics, art, governments and corporations. Alaska Native student support programs provide centers for belonging across UAA.
December 10, 2019
Through her work with USUAA, Rose Kruger hopes to keep UAA open access and affordable to other nontraditional students like herself, which she credits with bringing her back to Alaska after taking her own break from school.
November 25, 2019
Navigating scholarships can be stressful. As a lead coach for the UAA eWolf ePortfolio program, Amanda Magnusen is more than familiar with that feeling, inspiring her to donate her own scholarship.
November 18, 2019
UAA alumna and Harvard instructor Terzah Tippin Poe, B.A. Journalism and Public Communications ’98, has traveled all over the world lecturing on global issues ranging from sustainability and indigenous rights to social justice and business. Despite her jet-set career, she remains grounded in her Alaska Inupiaq roots and is grateful for what she believes was a world-class education at UAA.
November 11, 2019
The world is one step closer to having drones deliver pizza straight to our doors. When that day arrives, remember to thank journalism alumna Amber McDonald, B.A. ’10, and her drone safety startup Indemnis.
October 29, 2019
How integral is Providence to Alaska? Not only does the hospital make up the second half of the namesake UMED District, but the organization is the largest non-government employer in the state, naturally resulting in the employment of a large number of UAA nursing alumni.
Not only has former Seawolf hockey player and marketing alum Brian Kraft made a second home in Bristol Bay with his Alaska Sportsman’s Lodge businesses, but he’s also found a calling by advocating for the preservation of the region.
October 22, 2019
UAA biological sciences major Michael Martinez has been conducting research his entire life, but the sophomore researcher has come a long way from his elementary school science fair days and may have helped open a new door for Alaska’s mining resource industry.
October 14, 2019
Shortly after graduating from UAA, ceramics alumnus Lukas Easton moved to Indonesia to spend three months designing a dinnerware set that has since hit the market in Indonesia and Japan.
October 08, 2019
UAA double bachelor's Journalism and Public Communications and French Language alumna, Maya Narang is fulfilling a childhood dream of living abroad in France, but the path to get there was fraught with bumps in the road along the way.
October 07, 2019
If you purchase a Coca-Cola product anywhere in the Last Frontier, it’s a good bet that natural sciences alumna and director of sales for the Odom Corporation in Alaska Lessie Kincaid helped get it in your hand.