2600 Seventh Avenue
Ketchikan, AK 99901

University Of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus, the oldest campus in the region, was originally established as Ketchikan community college in 1954. It is located in Alaska's First City, which regards itself as the salmon capital of the world. The campus awards both certificates and associate degrees. business and industry programs are delivered on this campus, as well as a core of technical, maritime studies and other vocational courses.

University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan offers many courses to students locally that are actually taught from another University of Alaska campus. University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan also offers courses to students outside Ketchikan. These are called distance courses. Distance courses at University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan are designed to meet the needs of busy students. The student is often responsible for additional assignments.

There is often less interaction time with faculty when taking distance classes at University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan. Distance courses require good time management skills. Distance courses are delivered by audio conference, satellite, online, or in some cases through video conference. Some courses use a combination of the delivery methods and will require students to have access to computers with internet availability.

Quick Facts:

University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan was first known as Ketchikan Community College. The college steadily progressed from rented venues to its own facilities, from pioneering as one of the first two community colleges in Alaska to participating as an extended campus of the University of Alaska Southeast system.

When Ketchikan campus reached its 40th-anniversary mark in 1994, the small college was enrolling around more than 70 full-time academic students and more than 600 part-time and non-credit students each term.

Ketchikan is 680 air miles north of Seattle and is located in the Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest national forest totaling 17 million acres.

The college that opened in Ketchikan in autumn 1954 was a night school on a hill, borrowing old Main School for classrooms and registering 40 students at five bucks a credit-hour for the inaugural term of academic classes.

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