You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Alabama for Health and Wellness for a Master’s list. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health and wellness degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
In addition to being on our alabama master’s degree vets studying health and wellness list, UAB has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Health & Wellness Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking.According to our most recent data, UAB supports 22,563 students, and 1,194 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 508 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,983. To help with additional expenses, 15 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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