UAH at a Glance
AdministrationThe university is governed by President David B. Williams. The president is assisted by the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; the vice president for research; the vice president for finance and administration; the vice president for university advancement and the vice president for diversity and student services. The vice presidents along with the director of alumni relations, the director of athletics, the director of government relations and the director of university relations function as the president’s executive council.
Student body
Total enrollment is more than 7,400, including about 1,500 graduate students. Undergraduates include 49 percent women, 51 percent men. UAH incoming freshmen score an average of 24 on the ACT examinations, among the best among Alabama's public universities.
Academic offerings
UAH offers 60 degree-granting programs that meet the highest standards of excellence, including 29 bachelor's degree programs, 18 Masters' degree programs, and 13 Ph.D. programs through its five colleges -- Business, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Nursing, and Science as well as the School of Graduate Studies.
Research
UAH expended $65 million in the pursuit of active research projects during 2007. Sponsors of that research include federal and state agencies; academic institutions; industry and private foundations. Research is conducted within the individual colleges or through UAH’s 15 independent research centers, laboratories and institutes. Major interdisciplinary research thrusts include: applied optics; earth system science; information technology; management of science and technology; mechanical and aerospace engineering; modeling and simulation; nano devices; space plasmas and astrophysics; space propulsion; structural biology; systems engineering; and robotics.
Accreditation
UAH is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Numerous departments or programs also hold accreditation from professional associations, including the American Chemical Society, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the National Association of Schools of Music, the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. UAH's Cooperative Education Program is one of only 13 accredited programs in the United States through The Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE).
Faculty
UAH has more than 300 full-time faculty members; 92 percent have terminal degrees. The FTE student/faculty ratio is 16:1.
Library
The M. Louis Salmon Library has more than 60,000 e books, 325,000 hard copy books, along with collections of U.S. government documents, sound recordings, microform and microfiche. There is also access to over 66,000 online paid periodical titles, 111,000 online paid resources, and 900 hard copy journals.
Academic recognition
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT has ranked UAH among the magazine's top 175 national universities. UAH's academic reputation has been recognized by two other respected publications. BARRON'S PROFILES IN AMERICAN COLLEGES listed UAH as very competitive, the only public university in Alabama to earn this designation. UAH has been named one of “America's 100 Best College Buys” for 13 consecutive years and was called the 15th best value in America by Consumers Digest magazine.
Degreed Alumni: 26,295 (Aug 2007)
Location
Located at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, Huntsville is a national center of aerospace and high technology research and development. Redstone Arsenal is located a short distance from the university. Redstone is home to the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, the Space and Missile Defense Command, numerous Program Executive Offices, and major components of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Missile Defense Agency. UAH is the anchor tenant for Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the United States and home to more than 25,000 employees and 285 high technology and research companies.
Academic calendar
UAH is on the semester system, offering a full program of undergraduate and graduate day and night classes throughout the year, including the summer.
How to contact
Mailing address: The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Ala. 35899. Telephone: 256.824.1000.
Quick facts
UAHuntsville has the largest research expenditures in the nation - more than $65 million when compared to all public universities of its size (~ 7,500 students.) Much of it in partnership with industry, NASA, the U.S. Army and other Department of Defense agencies.UAHuntsville ranks second to Georgia Tech in annual research expenditures as a percentage of total expenditures when compared to the 31 universities in the Southern University Group.
UAHuntsville is the first university in the United States to have Oak Ridge National Laboratory operate offices on their campus. This effort will also bring UAHuntsville and this community into closer collaboration with other world-class research institutions — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex, among others.
UAHuntsville was among 17 research organizations and universities in the nation invited to join the National Systems Engineering Research Center, an organization created by the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency.
UAHuntsville has signed a pioneering research collaboration agreement with an aerospace giant — Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. This agreement will allow both of us to leverage and strengthen the research, education, innovation and strategic missions of the two organizations. This move will play an increasingly important role in defining industry-university partnerships for the future.
UAHuntsville is partnering with Calhoun Community College on the Advanced Technology Robotics Research and Development Complex. This education and training center is designed to help the state attract high-tech industry, fill the critical needs of the Army and NASA at Redstone, support the requirements of existing industry and educate workers for 21st century careers.
UAHuntsville’s graduate level engineering management program has been singled out as being the best in the nation by the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM).
UAHuntsville’s undergraduate business program has been ranked by business deans and senior faculty at AACSB accredited business schools among the top business schools in the US for 2008; among the top 10 percent, as reported in U.S. News & World Report.
UAHuntsville has been named as one of “America’s 100 Best College Buys" for 13 consecutive years.
UAHuntsville was cited as the 15th best value for public colleges and universities in the United States by Consumers Digest magazine.
UAHuntsville researchers have gained international reputations in fields as varied as astrophysics, mechanical and aerospace engineering, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, modeling and simulation, optics, Earth and space science and propulsion.
UAHuntsville consistently ranks among the top universities in the nation in NASA-sponsored research.
UAHuntsville students have the opportunity to study with faculty possessing academic credentials respected around the planet. Faculty members design experiments that fly aboard the space shuttle and the space station. These faculty members also are responsible for monitoring the world’s climate and studying the characteristics of our solar system.
UAHuntsville's discovery of the first 'high temperature' superconductor is the second most cited paper ever published by the prestigious scientific journal, "Physical Review Letters." The American Physical Society compiled the list of the most-cited papers using data from the Institute for Scientific Information, publishers of the Science Citation Index.
UAHuntsville is the first location in the United States outside of MIT as a Lean Aerospace Initiative Education Network Center. This class provides a hands-on introduction to lean and other continuous improvement fundamentals with a focus on aerospace applications.
UAHuntsville's business school has been ranked among the top undergraduate business programs in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
UAHuntsville has four research disciplines that consistently rank among the top 50 in the nation in federal research funding, according to the National Science Foundation. The atmospheric science program was 19th in the nation in funding, followed by computer science at 20th, mechanical engineering at 26th, and electrical engineering at 49th.
UAHuntsville consistently ranks among the top 20 universities in the nation for awarding bachelor’s engineering degrees to women, according to the American Society of Engineering Educators.
UAHuntsville engineering students routinely launch payloads to the edge of space using both high-altitude balloons and rockets.
UAHuntsville is home to the National Space Science and Technology Center, a collaborative research and education initiative focused on specific scientific disciplines.
UAHuntsville's business school has consistently been accredited through The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Fewer than 15 percent of business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of the highest standard in management education.
UAHuntsville’s Cooperative Education Program is one of only 13 accredited Co-op programs in the US through The Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE).
UAHuntsville is one of only a few universities in America that has developed a master’s level degree in engineering that offers a concentration in rotorcraft systems engineering. The program will stress the integration of avionics, sensors and software.
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