University of Alaska Fairbanks

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is a public land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant research university. It is internationally recognised for Arctic and subarctic research, covering geophysics, atmospheric sciences, permafrost engineering, Arctic biology and northern engineering, fields where its location gives it advantages no other American institution can match. That specialism is directly relevant to a Kazakh applicant in an unusual way. Kazakhstan shares with Alaska a continental subarctic climate, extensive permafrost in its northern regions, extractive industries operating in extreme cold, and infrastructure engineering problems driven by freeze-thaw cycles. UAF's cold-regions engineering and geophysics programmes address problems a Kazakh graduate could return to work on directly. Its published non-resident tuition and fees come to USD 30,450, with housing and food adding USD 13,500.