Finance at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you are interested in studying finance, 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. Of the 586 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2021, 69 of them were finance majors.

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

UAB Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

UAB Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how UAB performed in these 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.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at UAB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Finance. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	381
	412
	423
	453
	496
	528

Finance Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB Finance Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 69 students earned a bachelor's degree in finance from UAB. About 33% of these graduates were women and the other 67% were men. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UAB since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at UAB are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities in its finance 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 finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	46
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UAB also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Finance Grads May Go Into

A degree in finance 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
General and Operations Managers	28,600	$118,440
Financial Managers	4,910	$128,690
Loan Officers	3,910	$67,860
Personal Financial Advisors	1,990	$117,350
Chief Executives	1,390	$204,590

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.