Graduate Programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Graduate School Overview

University of Alabama at Birmingham (referred to as UAB) is a Public, 4 years school located in Birmingham, AL.

The school is pre-accredited by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (1/26/2018 - Current).

UAB Directory Information
School Name	University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Address	Administration Bldg Suite 1070, Birmingham, AL 35294-0110
Phone	205-934-4011
Web	https://www.uab.edu
Online Application	https://www.uab.edu/admissions/apply
Financial Info	https://www.uab.edu/cost-aid

The 2023 graduate school tuition & fees of UAB is $8,424 for Alabama residents and $20,556 for out-of-state students. The school has 8,607 graduate students where it has a total enrollment of 21,639 including undergraduate students.

It offers total 196 graduate programs through Post-Bachelor Certificate, Master's, Post-Master Certificate, Doctorate (Research), and Doctorate (Professional Practice). Among them, 16 programs are available online classes.

Graduate School 2023 Key Facts
School Type	Public, 4 years
Tuition & Fees	$20,556 $8,424 for Alabama Residents
Student Population	8,607
Offered Degrees/Programs	Post-Bachelor Certificate, Master's, Post-Master Certificate, Doctorate (Research), and Doctorate (Professional Practice)
Number of Programs	196 graduate programs (16 programs available online learning)
Student to Faculty Ratio	18 to 1

The graduate tuition & fees at UAB is $8,424 for Alabama residents and $20,556 for out-of-state students for the academic year 2022-2023. The tuition per credit hour is $468 for Alabama residents and $1,109 for out-of-state students.

UAB offers the alternative tuition plans.

2023 Graduate Program Tuition & Fees
Tuition & Fees
Alabama Residents	$8,424
Out-of-State	$20,556
Tuition per Credit Hour
Alabama Residents	$468
Out-of-State	$1,109

UAB offers the distance education programs. All course works for completing a degree program can be done through online exclusively for graduate programs. In addition, the distance learning courses are offered for students who are not enrolled online exclusively.

On its campus, academic/career services, employment services for students, placement services for completers are provided for their students.

Special Learning Opportunities & On-campus Services
Distance Learning (Online Classes)	16 Online Programs Available
Special learning Opportunities	ROTC (Army, Air Force) Study abroad Teacher certification
On-Campus Student Services	Academic/career services Employment services for students Placement services for completers

2023 Graduate Tuition, Fees, Other Expenses

For the academic year 2022-2023, the graduate school tuition & fees of University of Alabama at Birmingham is $8,424 for Alabama residents and $20,556 for other students. The graduate tuition & fees are increased by 2.98% compared to previous academic year.

Data source: 2022-2023 tuition - NCES(National Center for Education Statistics (Last update: July 22, 2022)

2022-2023 Graduate Tuition & fees
	Alabama Residents		Out-of-State
	Tuition	Fees	Tuition	Fees
2018-2019	$8,100	-	$18,540	-
2019-2020	$8,100	-	$19,188	-
2020-2021	$8,100	-	$19,188	-
2021-2022	$8,100	-	$19,188	-
2022-2023	$8,424	-	$19,962	-
2023-2024	$8,424	-	$20,556	-

The graduate school tuition & fees of UAB is average compared to public graduate schools in Alabama. The average graduate school tuition for all graduate schools in United States is $19,793 and the Alabama graduate tuition is $21,404 (public) / $13,479 (private).

The following table compares the average graduate school tuition by location and school types.

Graduate Tuition & fees Comparison
	Residents	Out-of-State
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$8,424	$20,556
All Graduate Schools	$16,068	$19,793
Public	$11,516	$20,721
Private	$19,916
Alabama Graduate Schools	$11,128	$16,835
Public	$10,239	$21,404
Private	$13,479

For academic year 2022-2023, the living costs are $19,597 when a student lives on-campus housing facilities (i.e. dormitory, school owned apartments, etc.) at UAB.

On-campus living costs are increased by 2.49% compared to previous academic year. The off-campus living costs are $20,587. Off-campus living costs are increased by 1.23% compared to previous academic year.

2022-2023 Living Expenses
	Living On-Campus		Living Off-Campus
	Room & Board	Other Expense	Room & Board	Other Expense
2018-2019	$11,682	$4,886	$11,682	$4,886
2019-2020	$12,307	$5,555	$12,307	$5,555
2020-2021	$12,307	$5,555	$12,307	$5,555
2021-2022	$12,307	$5,555	$12,307	$5,555
2022-2023	$13,120	$5,757	$14,330	$6,007
2023-2024	$13,590	$5,757	$14,580	$6,007

For academic year 2022-2023, the tuition per credit hour for graduate programs is $468 for Alabama residents and $1,142 for other students at University of Alabama at Birmingham. The graduate tuition per credit hour are increased by 2.98% compared to previous academic year.

2022-2023 Graduation Program Tuition per Credit Hour
	Alabama Residents	Out-of-State
2018-2019	$450	$1,030
2019-2020	$450	$1,066
2020-2021	$450	$1,066
2021-2022	$450	$1,066
2022-2023	$468	$1,109
2023-2024	$468	$1,142

For medical school, the average tuition & fees is $34,662 for Alabama residents and $66,178 for out-of-state students.

The following table shows the tuition & fees for medical school at UAB.

Medical School Tuition

2022-2023 Law School/Medical School Tuition at University of Alabama at Birmingham
	Alabama Residents		Out-of-State
	Tuition	Fees	Tuition	Fees
Dentistry	$30,972	-	$72,196	-
Medicine	$31,198	$3,464	$62,714	$3,464
Optometry	$28,971	-	$54,012	-

Graduate Programs at UAB

University of Alabama at Birmingham offers 134 graduate programs for Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate. The next table lists number of programs by offered degree and online availability along with number of completers by degree/certificate programs. Last year, 3,453 students have completed their study at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Offered Degrees at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Award Level	Total Number of Programs	Available Online Class	Number of Completers
Master's Degree	66	10	2,512
Doctor's degree - research/scholarship	33	0	166
Doctor's degree - other	7	2	504
Post Bachelor's Degree	25	4	245
Post Master's Degree	3	0	26
Total	134	16	3,453

The next table shows the popular graduate programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham by award level.

The most popular Post-graduate Certificate program is the Systems Science and Theory program with 53 completers.
The most popular Master's program is the Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse program with 625 completers.
The most popular Doctorate program is the Medicine program with 189 completers.

Popular Post-graduate Certificate Programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Systems Science and Theory	✕	53	-
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (other)	✕	33	-
Management Information Systems	✕	23	-
Public Health	✕	21	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (other)	✕	20	-

Popular Master's Programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	✕	625	$91,900
Business Administration and Management	✕	266	$68,800
Public Health	✕	236	$50,600
Engineering	✔	139	$87,300
Biomedical Sciences	✕	135	-

Popular Doctorate Programs at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Medicine	✕	189	-
Nursing Practice	✔	124	-
Dentistry	✔	77	-
Physical Therapy/Therapist	✔	54	-
Optometry	✔	41	-

University of Alabama at Birmingham offers 134 programs through Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate. The programs are offered both in online and on-site education. Last year total 3,453 students have completed their graduate studies.

2,512 students have earned/completed Master's program.
504 students have earned/completed Doctorate (Practice) program.
245 students have earned/completed Post-Bachelor's program.
26 students have earned/completed Post-Master's program.

Master's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Communication and Journalism [+]	✕	11 completers	-
Speech Communication and Rhetoric	✕	11	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	109 completers	-
Computer and Information Sciences	✕	33	-
Information Science/Studies	✕	46	-
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance	✕	30	-
Education [+]	✔ (4 completers)	211 completers	-
Education	✕	3	-
Curriculum and Instruction	✔	13	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	5	$50,500
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration	✔	1	-
Educational Assessment, Testing, and Measurement	✔	29	-
Special Education and Teaching	✕	27	$43,700
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services	✕	33	$34,900
Elementary Education and Teaching	✕	4	-
Secondary Education and Teaching	✕	34	-
Early Childhood Education and Teaching	✕	3	-
Art Teacher Education	✕	10	-
Physical Education Teaching and Coaching	✕	16	-
Reading Teacher Education	✔	4	-
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor	✕	29	$45,400
Engineering [+]	✔ (1 completers)	172 completers	$87,300
Engineering	✔	139	$87,300
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering	✕	3	-
Civil Engineering	✕	4	-
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	✕	-	-
Materials Engineering	✕	5	-
Mechanical Engineering	✕	4	-
Electrical and Computer Engineering	✕	14	-
Engineering (other)	✕	3	-
English Language and Literature [+]	✕	10 completers	-
English Language and Literature	✕	10	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✕	182 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	17	-
Biomedical Sciences	✕	135	-
Anatomy	✕	-	-
Vision Science/Physiological Optics	✕	-	-
Biostatistics	✕	3	-
Biotechnology	✕	27	-
Mathematics and Statistics [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Mathematics	✕	2	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✔ (1 completers)	19 completers	-
Systems Science and Theory	✔	13	$147,000
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (other)	✕	6	-
Physical Sciences [+]	✕	8 completers	-
Chemistry	✕	3	-
Physics	✕	5	-
Psychology [+]	✕	10 completers	-
Psychology	✕	10	-
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Firefighting [+]	✕	23 completers	-
Corrections and Criminal Justice (other)	✕	13	-
Forensic Science and Technology	✕	10	-
Human Services [+]	✕	24 completers	-
Public Administration	✕	24	$42,500
Social Sciences [+]	✔ (1 completers)	49 completers	-
Anthropology (other)	✕	8	-
Sociology	✔	41	-
Visual and Performing Arts [+]	✕	1 completers	-
Art History, Criticism and Conservation	✕	1	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✔ (2 completers)	1,285 completers	-
Health and Wellness	✔	10	-
Dental Clinical Sciences	✕	16	-
Health/Health Care Administration/Management	✕	64	$85,200
Health and Medical Administrative Services (other)	✕	30	-
Nuclear Medical Technology/Technologist	✕	5	-
Physician Assistant	✕	72	-
Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology/Technologist	✕	14	-
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions (other)	✕	-	-
Clinical/Medical Social Work	✕	34	-
Genetic Counseling/Counselor	✕	5	-
Public Health	✕	236	$50,600
Health/Medical Physics	✕	4	-
Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality	✔	48	-
Occupational Therapy/Therapist	✕	60	-
Clinical Nutrition/Nutritionist	✕	62	-
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse	✕	625	$91,900
Nurse Anesthetist	✕	-	-
Business [+]	✔ (1 completers)	386 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✕	266	$68,800
Accounting	✕	78	$56,800
Management Information Systems	✔	42	$70,300
History [+]	✕	10 completers	-
History	✕	10	-
	Total	2,512

Doctorate (Research) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	2 completers	-
Computer and Information Sciences	✕	2	-
Education [+]	✕	9 completers	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	3	-
Early Childhood Education and Teaching	✕	6	-
Engineering [+]	✕	18 completers	-
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering	✕	4	-
Civil Engineering	✕	2	-
Computer Engineering	✕	5	-
Materials Engineering	✕	1	-
Engineering (other)	✕	6	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✕	64 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	7	-
Molecular Biochemistry	✕	5	-
Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology	✕	10	-
Microbiology	✕	12	-
Human/Medical Genetics	✕	6	-
Molecular Physiology	✕	2	-
Vision Science/Physiological Optics	✕	3	-
Pathology/Experimental Pathology	✕	-	-
Pharmacology and Toxicology	✕	-	-
Biostatistics	✕	3	-
Epidemiology	✕	7	-
Neurobiology and Anatomy	✕	9	-
Mathematics and Statistics [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Applied Mathematics	✕	4	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✕	8 completers	-
Nutrition Sciences	✕	1	-
Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies	✕	7	-
Physical Sciences [+]	✕	11 completers	-
Chemistry	✕	3	-
Physics	✕	7	-
Materials Science	✕	1	-
Psychology [+]	✕	15 completers	-
Psychology	✕	15	-
Social Sciences [+]	✕	5 completers	-
Sociology	✕	5	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	30 completers	-
Health/Health Care Administration/Management	✕	11	-
Environmental Health	✕	-	-
Behavioral Aspects of Health	✕	5	-
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (other)	✕	7	-
Nursing Science	✕	7	-
	Total	166

Doctorate (Practice) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✔	504 completers	-
Dentistry	✕	77	-
Medicine	✕	189	-
Optometry	✕	41	-
Public Health	✕	3	-
Occupational Therapy/Therapist	✔	16	-
Physical Therapy/Therapist	✕	54	-
Nursing Practice	✔	124	-
	Total	504

Post-Bachelor's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	-	-
Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance	✕	-	-
Education [+]	✔ (2 completers)	26 completers	-
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration	✔	3	-
Special Education and Teaching	✔	1	-
Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services	✕	11	-
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor	✕	11	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✕	10 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	2	-
Biotechnology	✕	8	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✕	73 completers	-
Systems Science and Theory	✕	53	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (other)	✕	20	-
Human Services [+]	✕	11 completers	-
Public Administration	✕	11	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✔ (1 completers)	71 completers	-
Health and Wellness	✔	5	-
Health/Health Care Administration/Management	✕	-	-
Health and Medical Administrative Services (other)	✕	1	-
Public Health	✕	21	-
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (other)	✕	33	-
Clinical Nutrition/Nutritionist	✕	11	-
Business [+]	✕	29 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✕	6	-
Management Information Systems	✕	23	-
	Total	245

Post-Master's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✕	26 completers	-
Education	✕	5	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	7	$57,200
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor	✕	14	-
	Total	26

Graduate Student Population at UAB

For the academic year 2022-2023, total 8,607 students enrolled into University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate schools where it has total 21,639 students including undergraduate students. By attending status, there are 4,817 full-time and 3,790 part-time graduate students. By gender, 3,019 male and 5,588 female students are attending graduate schools. The next table summarizes the graduate student population by gender and attending status.

Graduate School Student Population By Gender
	Total	Male	Female
Total	8,607	3,019	5,588
Full-time	4,817	1,850	2,967
Part-tme	3,790	1,169	2,621

The next table summarizes the students population by race/ethnicity.

There are 4,394 White (51.05%), 1,281 Black/African American (14.88%), 188 Hispanic (2.18%), 485 Asian (5.63%), and 2,259 students with other races. 1,148 students are enrolled with non-resident alien status.

Graduate Student Population By Race/ethnicity
	Total	Male	Female
Total	8,607	3,019	5,588
American Indian/Native American	16	2	14
Asian	485	181	304
Black/African American	1,281	270	1,011
Hispanic	188	72	116
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	4	3	1
White	4,394	1,458	2,936
Two More	188	60	128
Un-Known	903	272	631
Non-resident Alien	1,148	701	447

University of Alabama at Birmingham offers the distance learning opportunities (online degree program and/or courses) for graduate programs. 3,548 graduate students (41.22% of total students) are enrolled online exclusively and 1,530 graduate students (17.78% of total students) are enrolled some online courses. The next table summarizes the online student population.

Distance Learning Student Population
	Number of Graduate Students
Total	8,607
Enrolled Online Exclusively	3,548
Enrolled Some Online Courses	1,530
Not in Online Courses	3,529

The following table summarizes the graduate students population by age at University of Alabama at Birmingham. 2,642 students are aged 20 to 24 (30.70% of total students), 350 students are aged above 50 (4.07%). Next table summarizes the student population by age at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Graduate Student Population By Age
	Total	Male	Female
Total	8,607	3,019	5,588
Age 20-21	105	54	51
Age 22-24	2,537	876	1,661
Age 25-29	3,028	1,071	1,957
Age 30-34	1,171	419	752
Age 35-39	648	240	408
Age 40-49	768	231	537
Age 50-64	336	123	213
Over 64	14	5	9

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