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About Alaska

Alaska has an estimated 100,000 glaciers, ranging from tiny cirque glaciers to huge valley glaciers. There are more active glaciers and ice fields in Alaska than in the rest of the inhabited world. The largest glacier is the Malaspina at 850 square miles. Five percent of the state, or 29,000 square miles, is covered by glaciers.

Alaska is a land of superlatives and adventure. The Great Land consists of five distinct regions: Inside Passage, Southcentral, Interior, Far North and Southwest.

Of the 20 highest peaks in the United States, 17 are in Alaska. Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is 20,320 ft. above sea level. Denali, the Indian name for the peak, means “The Great One.”

Two-year institutions
• Ilisagvik College, Barrow
• Kodiak College, Kodiak
• Kenai Peninsula College, Soldotna,
  Homer, Anchorage, Seward
• Matanuska-Susitna College, Palmer
• Prince William Sound Community
  College, Valdez

Four-year institutions

• Alaska Bible College, Glennallen
• Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage
• Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka (closed)
• Wayland Baptist University, Anchorage
• Saint Herman’s Orthodox Theological
  Seminary, Kodiak

Four-year institutions
• University of Alaska System
• University of Alaska Anchorage,
  Anchorage
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (main
  campus), Fairbanks
• University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau

Two-year institutions

• Charter College, Anchorage