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²ÝÁñÉçÇø significance

• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø is America's northernmost Land, Sea and Space Grant institution and one of only a handful of universities in the nation with this triple-crown distinction.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø played an essential role in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's statehood. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1955–1956 wrote the state's constitution in the student union building, now known as Constitution Hall. The constitution was signed in what was then the university gym and is now Signers' Hall.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø got its start with about $100 dollars for a cornerstone that was laid in 1915, two years before the university even officially existed. Today, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø has the largest presence, impact and geographic scope of any university in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø. In addition to its seven campuses, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø maintains research stations, learning centers, Cooperative Extension Service offices and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program offices across the state.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø is home to the UA Museum of the North, which holds the world's largest collection of Arctic dinosaurs, among other notable holdings.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø is home to the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, the largest library in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø.

Academics

• U.S. News and World Report named ²ÝÁñÉçÇø the only national university in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, putting us in a category with the best universities in the country.
  
  
• Times Higher Education ranked ²ÝÁñÉçÇø among the top 25 of the world’s best small universities in 2020. 
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø is the leading Ph.D.-granting university in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø has had 20 faculty Fulbright Scholars since 2010.
  
  
• The College of Engineering and Mines consistently fields one of the nation’s best steel bridge-building student teams. In April 2019, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø claimed the top spot in the Pacific Northwest regional competition for the fourth time in five years.
  
  
• College of Business and Security Management students, on average, have scored better than 91 percent of other students on the Educational Testing Service's business field exam since 2005, when ²ÝÁñÉçÇø students first started taking the test. Undergraduates in over 700 U.S. universities take the exam each year.

Research

• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø has the highest number of publications and citations in Arctic research of any university in the world. 
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø operates the Research Vessel Sikuliaq (pronounced see-KOO-lee-ack], one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø is home to the Poker Flat Research Range, the largest land-based rocket research range in the world, the only high-latitude rocket range in the country and the only such range operated by a university.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø brings in almost 90 percent of the research dollars for the entire University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø system.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø ranks in the top 150 of the nearly 700 U.S. institutions that conduct research.
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø is a founding member of the University of the Arctic, a consortium of colleges, universities and research organizations in the eight Arctic nations that work together to build strong education and research networks to address the needs of the circumpolar North. 
  
  
• ²ÝÁñÉçÇø researchers are helping to reshape our understanding of the first Americans, using DNA analysis of the oldest human remains ever found in northern North America. Remains from , as well as a , have revealed a distinct group of people dubbed the Ancient Beringians.