Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 64.3%, so approximately 2/5 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity

• Undergrad program: Balanced arts & sciences/professions, high graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school

• Enrollment profile: Majority undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $16,834 . This is 90% the average cost of Harvard.

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily nonresidential

• In state percentage: 82% of first year students come from Alabama

• In US percentage: 99% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 64.3% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 44.5%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 15.4%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 7.1 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 3.8 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 3480 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 6.94 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• University of Alabama at Birmingham lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Florida State University, University of South Florida, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Texas Tech University, The University of Alabama, University of Cincinnati-Main Campus, University of Illinois Chicago, Wayne State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Mississippi, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Southern Mississippi
• University of Alabama at Birmingham compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of California-Los Angeles, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Virginia-Main Campus, The University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, University of California-Irvine, University of California-San Diego, University of Georgia, Texas A & M University-College Station, University of Washington-Seattle Campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Ohio State University-Main Campus, University of Maryland-College Park, Auburn University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Clemson University, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of South Carolina-Columbia, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus, University of Houston, University of Missouri-Columbia, Oklahoma State University-Main Campus, University of Delaware, University of Arkansas, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Arizona State University Campus Immersion, Georgia State University, University of Iowa, University of Utah, University of Arizona, Mississippi State University, University of Kentucky, West Virginia University, Colorado State University-Fort Collins, University of New Mexico-Main Campus, University of Houston-Victoria
• These institutions compare themselves to University of Alabama at Birmingham, but not vice versa: CUNY Bernard M Baruch College, Iowa State University, Indiana University-Indianapolis, Rowan University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-St Louis, University of North Dakota, University of Louisville, University of South Alabama, Rutgers University-Newark, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kean University, Old Dominion University, Cleveland State University, Augusta University, University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of New Orleans, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University of West Alabama, Florida Polytechnic University, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).

Library

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