General Health & Wellness at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you plan to study general health & wellness, 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 Health & Wellness section at the bottom of this page.

UAB General Health & Wellness Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Wellness
• Master’s Degree in Health and Wellness

Online Classes Are Available at UAB

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

UAB does offer online education options in health and wellness for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

UAB General Health & Wellness Rankings

The health and wellness major at UAB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Health & Wellness. 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.

Health and Wellness Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB General Health & Wellness Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of health and wellness bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its health and wellness 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 health and wellness.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UAB General Health & Wellness Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of health and wellness master's degrees went to men and 82% went to women.

In the health and wellness master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 82% of degree recipients. That is 35% 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 health and wellness.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That Health and Wellness Grads May Go Into

A degree in health and wellness 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
Community Health Workers	760	$42,830

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.