You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Alabama for Health/Medical Physics for a Master’s. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s health/medical physics degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UAB, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Health/Medical Physics Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking.Of the 22,563 students enrolled at UAB, 1,194 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 508 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,983. On top of their other funding sources, 15 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. UAB offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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