Educational Assessment at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you are interested in studying educational assessment, you may want to check out the program at University of Alabama at Birmingham. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 22,563 students attend the school each year.

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

UAB Educational Assessment Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Assessment

Online Classes Are Available at UAB

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UAB does offer online courses in assessment for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UAB Educational Assessment Rankings

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Assessment Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB Educational Assessment Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 4% of assessment master's degrees went to men and 96% went to women.

Of the students who received a assessment master's degree from UAB, 61% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the assessment master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 35% of degree recipients. That is 9% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• General Education
• Special Education
• Curriculum & Instruction
• Educational Administration
• Student Counseling

Careers That Assessment Grads May Go Into

A degree in assessment 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 University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Education Professors	880	$72,430
Social Scientists	220	$84,890

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 Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.