Location Birmingham is a vibrant, rapidly growing community with a population of 1.2 million set along a series of beautiful mountain and valley ridge lines. The city has a rich cultural diversity represented by UAB's Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts, the Alabama Symphony, the city's annual City Stages musical festival and a variety of ethnic and heritage festivals. The climate is mild with opportunity for year-round outdoor recreation including hiking in nearby national forests and state parks, canoeing in the many rivers and lakes and numerous public tennis and golf facilities. Restaurants offer diverse cuisine and ambiance with notable excellence in Chinese, Greek, Italian, Mexican, Thai and French food. The University of Alabama at Birmingham offers one of the leading environments in the US to pursue graduate studies, particularly in the Biomedical Sciences.
Doctoral programs are available in over thirty disciplines.
The University is a Carnegie Division I Research Institution and is consistently ranked in the top 20 institutions in the U.S. in federal funding for research.