University of Alabama at Birmingham - Community College Profile

Academic Overview

University of Alabama at Birmingham is a four-years, public school located in Birmingham, Alabama. For the academic year 2023-2024, the tuition & fees are $8,832 for Alabama residents and $21,864 for other students on average. It offers 196 degree programs through 7 Certificate, 53 Bachelor's programs. Of that, the distance learning opportunity is given to 16 programs ( programs). The average earning in 10 years after graduation from the school is $48,400. The average salary varies depending on the field of study where Engineering program shows the highest salary with $89,000 after graduating from University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Directory Information and Key Academic Statistics
Type	four-years, public
Address	Administration Bldg Suite 1070, Birmingham, AL
Phone	205-934-4011
Tuition & Fees (2023-2024) »	In-State$8,832 Out-of-State$21,864
Acceptance Rate	86.68%
Student Population »	21,639 Total Enrollment
Graduation Rate »	64%
Transfer-out Rate	15%
Retention Rate	82% (Full-time) 54% (Part-time)
Average Financial Aid »	$9,889
Students to Faculty	18:1 (5.56%)
Average Earning After 10 years of graduation	$48,400
Average Salary by Field of Study	$23,000 - $89,000

Application Requirements

University of Alabama at Birmingham requires to submit High School GPA, High School Rank, and High School Record (or Transcript) to its applicants. The school recommends submitting High School GPA, The following table summarizes the admission requirements to apply to University of Alabama at Birmingham.

UAB Admission Requirements
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Not Considered
High School Record (or Transcript)	Required
Completion of College Preparatory Program	Required
Recommendations	Not Considered
Formal Demonstration of Competencies	Not Considered
SAT / ACT	Considered, if submitted
English Proficiency Test	Not Considered
Other Test (Wonderlic,WISC-III,etc)	Not Considered
Work experience	Not Considered
Personal statement or essay	Not Considered
Legacy status	Not Considered

2024 Tuition & Fees

The 2024 tuition & fees are $8,832 for Alabama residents and $21,864 for out-of-state students at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Its tuition & fees are more expensive than the average tuition ($8,899) over public community colleges in Alabama.

The following table shows the 2023-2024 tuition & fees, books & supplies, and living costs at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Then, we compare its costs to Alabama community colleges and all U.S. community colleges. In addition, the chart shows the changes in tuition over the last 5 years.

Each cost is an average amount over the offered programs at the school. You can check more comprehensive tuition information on the cost of attendance page.

2024 Tuition & Fees

2024 Cost Of Attendance
	Alabama Residents	Out-of-State
Tuition & Fees	$8,832	$21,864
Books & Supplies	$1,200
On-Campus Living Costs	$19,347
Off-Campus Living Costs	$20,587
Average Financial Aid	$9,889
Cost of Attendance	$29,379	$42,411
After Financial Aid	$19,490	$32,522
Average Earning After 10 years of graduation	$48,400

Cost per Credit Hour

2024 Tuition & Fees and Comparison
	Alabama Residents	Out-of-State Students
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$8,832	$21,864
Public Community Colleges in Alabama	$5,119	$8,899
Public Community Colleges in U.S.	$4,939	$8,623

Offered Degrees/Programs By Area of Study

University of Alabama at Birmingham offers Certificate and Bachelor's programs. Of that, 16 programs can be conferred by distance learning - The following table summarizes the number of offered programs by degree types.

Total Number of Programs
	Certificate	Associate's	Bachelor's
Online Programs	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Total Programs	7	NOT OFFERED	53

The next tables list major programs with offered degrees and online availability. The number on each column denotes the conferred degree of the program.

The numbers include completers through on-campus classes and partially online classes as well as only online classes. Only in Classroom means that the program is offered only on-site classes and not offered denotes that the school does not offer the program.

You may want to see all schools offering a major program by following the link on the title of the program.

Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies

what is Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
African-American/Black Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	2 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Communication and Journalism

what is Communication and Journalism program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Speech Communication and Rhetoric	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	77 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Computer and Information Sciences

what is Computer and Information Sciences program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Computer and Information Sciences	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	69 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Education

what is Education program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Elementary Education and Teaching	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	35 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Secondary Education and Teaching	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	18 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Early Childhood Education and Teaching	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	17 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Physical Education Teaching and Coaching	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	122 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Engineering

what is Engineering program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	51 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Civil Engineering	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	44 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	15 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Materials Engineering	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	15 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Mechanical Engineering	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	47 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

what is Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Foreign Languages and Literatures	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Spanish Language and Literature	4 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

English Language and Literature

what is English Language and Literature program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
English Language and Literature	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	8 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities

what is Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
General Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	74 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities (other)	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

what is Biological and Biomedical Sciences program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Biology/Biological Sciences	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Biomedical Sciences	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	113 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Immunology	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	12 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Genetics	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	21 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Oncology and Cancer Biology	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	2 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Bioinformatics	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Neuroscience	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	75 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Mathematics and Statistics

what is Mathematics and Statistics program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Mathematics	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	18 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Philosophy and Religious Studies

what is Philosophy and Religious Studies program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Philosophy	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	15 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Physical Sciences

what is Physical Sciences program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Chemistry	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	52 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Physics	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	13 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Science Technologies/Technicians

what is Science Technologies/Technicians program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors

Psychology

what is Psychology program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Psychology	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	3 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting

what is Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Corrections and Criminal Justice (other)	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	19 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Human Services

what is Human Services program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Social Work	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	50 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Social Sciences

what is Social Sciences program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Anthropology	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	18 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Political Science and Government	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	26 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Sociology	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	20 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Social Sciences (other)	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	2 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Visual and Performing Arts

what is Visual and Performing Arts program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Musical Theatre	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	10 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Art/Art Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	38 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Music	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	11 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

what is Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Health and Wellness	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	16 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Dental Assisting/Assistant	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Health/Health Care Administration/Management	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	137 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Public Health	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	4 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	362 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Business

what is Business program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
Business Administration and Management	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	82 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	2 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED
Business Administration, Management and Operations (other)	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	52 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Accounting	24 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Business/Managerial Economics	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	16 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	7 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Finance	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	27 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Management Information Systems	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	1 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Marketing/Marketing Management	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	2 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM
Selling Skills and Sales Operations	24 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED

History

what is History program?

	Certificate	Associates	Bachelors
History	NOT OFFERED	NOT OFFERED	11 completers ONLY IN CLASSROOM

Student Population

There are 21,639 students at University of Alabama at Birmingham including both full-time and part-time students. By gender, 8,111 male students and 14,178 female students are attending the school.

The following table shows the total number of students by gender and attending status at the school. You can check more enrollment information of the school.

Student Population
	Total	Full-Time	Part-time
Total	22,289	14,926	7,363
Male Students	8,111	5,613	2,498
Female Students	14,178	9,313	4,865

Distance Learning (Online Degree/Program) Student Population

At University of Alabama at Birmingham, there are 21,639 students including in both full-time and part-time status. Of that, 14,671 students were attending classes through distance learning (5,984 students are enrolled exclusively and 8,687 are enrolled in some online courses) .

Distance Learning Enrollment Distribution
Total Enrollment	21,639
Enrolled Exclusively in Online Courses	5,984
Enrolled in Some But Not All Online Courses	8,687
Not Enrolled In Any Online Courses	6,968