by our College Data Analytics TeamThe goal of College Factual's yearly Best Quality Schools rankings is to help students find graduate schools that provide excellent learning environments that are a great fit for them. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
University of Alabama at Birmingham landed the #189 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
In addition, UAB took the #3 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in Alabama.
UAB was ranked #268 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Alabama, UAB came in at #3.
Women make up 66.3% of the total graduate student body at UAB while men make you 33.7%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 27.0% of the graduate student population at UAB. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 8.0% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,100 | $19,188 |
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their master's degree at UAB is $58,175. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from UAB enter careers with an average starting salary of $87,079. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 16% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Contact details for UAB are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Administration Bldg Suite 1070, Birmingham, AL 35294-0110 |
| Phone: | 205-934-4011 |
| Website: | https://www.uab.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/uab.edu |
About 59.1% of the graduate students at University of Alabama at Birmingham took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 44.1% of grad students took all of their classes online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
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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