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University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

https://www.uab.edu

#180 National Colleges

73.66% Admission Rate
Not Very Selective

13,328 Undergraduates Enrolled

  • Public
  • Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
  • Four-year, medium full-time , selective, higher transfer-in
  • Four-year, large, primarily nonresidential


By Lee Adlaf - originally posted to Flickr as UAB - Blazer Hall, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7058993

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became a four-year campus in 1966 and a fully autonomous university in the University of Alabama System in 1969.

UAB offers 140 programs of study in 12 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degrees in the social and behavioral sciences, the liberal arts, business, education, engineering, and health-related fields such as medicine, dentistry, optometry, nursing, and public health. In the fall of 2019, 22,080 students from more than 110 countries were enrolled.

The UAB Health System, one of the largest academic medical centers in the United States, is affiliated with the university. UAB Hospital sponsors residency programs in medical specialties, including internal medicine, neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, surgery, radiology, and anesthesiology.

UAB is the state's largest single employer, with more than 23,000 faculty and staff and over 53,000 jobs at the university and in the health system. An estimated 10 percent of the jobs in the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area and 1 in 31 jobs in the state of Alabama are directly or indirectly related to UAB. The university's overall annual economic impact was estimated to be $7.15 billion in 2017.

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Location

City
Birmingham, Alabama

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Locale
City: Midsize (population of at least 100,000 but less than 250,000)

Region
Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Academics

Predominant Degree Awarded
Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting

Highest Degree Awarded
Graduate degree

Most Popular Fields

Field % Students
Health Professions And Related Programs 22.1%
Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services 20.1%
Biological And Biomedical Sciences 9.0%
Education 6.8%
Psychology 6.7%
Engineering 6.4%
Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs 3.8%
Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities 3.7%
Social Sciences 3.4%
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting And Related Protective Services 3.1%
Visual And Performing Arts 3.1%
English Language And Literature/Letters 2.2%
Public Administration And Social Service Professions 2.1%
Physical Sciences 2.1%
Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services 1.6%
Mathematics And Statistics 1.3%
History 1.1%
Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics 0.8%
Philosophy And Religious Studies 0.5%
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies 0.2%

Cost

In State Tuition
$8,568.00

Out of State Tuition
$20,400.00

Percentage Students Receiving Aid
47.98%

Average Net Cost After Aid
$16,953.00

Admissions

SAT Scores

1234 Composite Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 685 608 530
Verbal 680 620 560

ACT Scores

26 Cumulative Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 27 24 20
English 32 27 22