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University of Alabama in Huntsville was awarded 143 badges in the 2023 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is management information systems.
College Factual ranked UAH as #682 out of 2,241 colleges and universities in the country on its 2023 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UAH held the #1,073 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 40 colleges in Alabama, UAH is ranked at #6.
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University of Alabama in Huntsville has an acceptance rate of 77%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 7% 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 590 and 700. Math scores were between 580 and 730.
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The student to faculty ratio at University of Alabama in Huntsville is 19 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 67%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 82% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Alabama in Huntsville enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 22% for first-time, full-time students at UAH, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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 + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,631 | $15,967 | $17,054 | $19,114 | $19,862 |
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 41% of students took out student loans averaging $6,839 a year. That adds up to $27,356 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at UAH is 4.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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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/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UAHuntsville |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/uahuntsville |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 221 | $51,910 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 142 | $63,270 |
| Computer Information Systems | 115 | $63,538 |
| Business Administration & Management | 110 | $36,684 |
| Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 101 | NA |
| General Biology | 88 | $24,909 |
| Management Information Systems | 84 | $51,668 |
| Electrical Engineering | 77 | $68,266 |
| Computer Engineering | 59 | $67,328 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 55 | NA |
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 2019-2020, 9,610 students took at least one online class at University of Alabama in Huntsville. This is an increase from the 3,306 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-2020 | 9,610 | 5,033 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,306 | 747 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,682 | 638 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,799 | 497 |
| 2015-2016 | 1,345 | 449 |
Learn more about online learning at University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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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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