If you’re ready to make your mark on the world, this is the place to do it. For more than 35 years, UAB students and faculty have generated unique ideas and groundbreaking solutions to address the issues and challenges of a changing society. UAB’s innovations impact business, education, engineering, health care, the arts and sciences, and many other aspects of life worldwide. But what truly makes this an energetic, exciting place is the fact that here you help play a role in launching a bright future—for yourself and everyone else.
Academics
Overview: UAB has rapidly become one of the state’s largest public universities, with 12 schools, a large graduate school, and a world-renowned medical center.
Undergraduate Majors: 51
Schools: Arts and Humanities*, Business*, Dentistry, Education*, Engineering*, Health Professions*, Medicine, Natural Sciences and Mathematics*, Nursing*, Optometry, Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences* (* schools offering undergraduate degrees)
Enrollment: 11,284 (undergraduate);16,561 (total);
Faculty Credentials: 90 percent hold an academic or professional doctorate.
Undergraduate Student-Faculty Ratio:18 to 1
Undergraduate Courses Offered Each Fall Semester:more than 3,100
Accreditation: UAB is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Individual programs and schools are also accredited by regional and national professional organizations.
Campus: 82 blocks near the heart of Birmingham, with most undergraduate buildings concentrated in one compact area
Computer Centers: in every school and Sterne Library
Research Lab Space: more than 529,169 square feet
Libraries: two facilities with 1,849,754 volumes
Internet Access: free e-mail accounts and Web space available
Student Life
Undergraduate Diversity:
- 61% female, 39% male
- 71% under the age of 25, 47% under the age of 22
- 59% Caucasian, 30% African American, 11% other
- 91.6% from Alabama, 6% from out of state, 2.4% from other countries
- every Alabama county, 45 states, and 69 countries represented
Average Age of Entering Freshmen: 18.9
On-Campus Residents: 1,625
Student Organizations: more than 130
Intercollegiate Sports Teams: 17
Sports Conference: Conference USA
Paying for College
Financial Assistance: nearly $100 million awarded annually
Scholarships: more than 1,500 awarded annually
Birmingham
Metropolitan Population: over one million
Rank: Alabama’s largest city