General Engineering at University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

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 General Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

UAB General Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering

UAB General Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at UAB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Engineering. 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.

Engineering Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at UAB since its program graduates 76% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering bachelor's program 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 bachelor's in engineering.

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

UAB General Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 69% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 31% went to women.

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 engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	22
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	83
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	46

Concentrations Within General Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Alabama at Birmingham. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	143

Related Majors

• Computer Engineering
• Other Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Electrical Engineering
• Materials Engineering

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering 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
Engineers	3,730	$115,710
Architectural and Engineering Managers	2,290	$138,470
Engineering Professors	530	$107,400

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.