Microbiology at The University of Alabama

If you plan to study microbiology, take a look at what The University of Alabama has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UA is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and approximately 37,840 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Microbiology section at the bottom of this page.

UA Microbiology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology

UA Microbiology Rankings

The microbiology major at UA is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Microbiology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Microbiology Student Demographics at UA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the microbiology majors at The University of Alabama.

UA Microbiology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of microbiology bachelor's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical microbiology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at UA since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in microbiology at UA are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Alabama with a bachelor's in microbiology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

Careers That Microbiology Grads May Go Into

A degree in microbiology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for The University of Alabama.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Natural Sciences Managers	170	$112,140

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Deutschlandreform under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.