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University of Alabama in Huntsville was awarded 19 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is art studies.
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UAH landed the #935 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
UAH is also ranked #17 out of 42 schools in Alabama.
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The acceptance rate at University of Alabama in Huntsville is 78%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that UAH is a good fit for you.
About 6% of students accepted to UAH submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 613 and 700. Math scores were between 613 and 730.
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With a student to faculty ratio of 17 to 1, University of Alabama in Huntsville is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Alabama in Huntsville is 65%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
University of Alabama in Huntsville has a freshmen retention rate of 80%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At UAH this rate is 31%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,027 undergraduates at UAH with 6,730 being full-time and 1,297 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,902 | $15,703 | $18,802 | $20,880 | $20,467 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UAH, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UAH, approximately 40% of students took out student loans averaging $7,054 a year. That adds up to $28,216 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for UAH are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 301 Sparkman Dr, Huntsville, AL 35899 |
| Phone: | 256-824-6120 |
| Website: | www.uah.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 351 | $63,036 |
| Business Administration & Management | 211 | $39,476 |
| Computer Information Systems | 179 | $75,159 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 127 | $73,984 |
| General Biology | 111 | $36,775 |
| Management Information Systems | 100 | $52,769 |
| Computer Engineering | 81 | $83,909 |
| General Engineering | 72 | NA |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 66 | $35,123 |
| Electrical Engineering | 65 | $81,516 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 5,684 students took at least one online class at University of Alabama in Huntsville. This is a decrease from the 5,945 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 5,684 | 1,177 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,945 | 1,065 |
| 2020-2021 | 9,610 | 5,033 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,682 | 638 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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