UAHuntsville | The University of Alabama in Huntsville

About UAHuntsville
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a public co-educational, state-supported research university within The University of Alabama System. UAHuntsville was founded as part of the University of Alabama in 1950 and became an autonomous campus within the UA System in 1969.

Administration
The university is governed by The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees that vests authority in the campus president to lead the university. The president is assisted by the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs; the vice president for research; the vice president for finance and administration; the vice president for university advancement; the vice president and chief of staff; and the vice president for student affairs. The vice presidents, together with the president, the executive assistant to the president/director of government relations and the director of university relations function as the university's executive committee.

Student body
Total enrollment is about 7400, including about 1500 graduate students; appproximately 50 percent women, 50 percent men. UAHuntsville incoming freshmen score an average of 25 on the ACT examination, among the highest among Alabama's public universities.

Academic offerings
UAHuntsville offers 61 degree-granting programs that meet the highest standards of excellence, including 30 bachelor's degree programs, 18 Masters' degree programs, and 13 Ph.D. programs through its five colleges: Business Administration, Liberal Arts, Engineering, Nursing, and Science.

Research
The university received about $65 million in external funding for active research projects during 2007-2008. Research sponsors include federal and state agencies; academic institutions; industry and private foundations. Research is conducted within the individual colleges or through UAHuntsville's 17 independent research centers, laboratories and institutes. Major interdisciplinary research thrusts include: applied optics; propulsion; space plasma and aeronomics; space physics and astrophysics; earth system science; information technology; management of science and technology; microgravity and materials; modeling and simulation; rotocraft systems; systems engineering; structural biology; and automation and robotics.

Accreditation
UAHuntsville is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Many UAHuntsville programs are also accredited by their respective accrediting agencies, including the American Chemical Society, ABET, Inc., the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the Computer Sciences Accrediting Board (CSAB), Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education (ACCE), National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), and the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).

Faculty
UAHuntsville has more than 330 full-time faculty members; 92 percent have terminal degrees in their fields. The FTE student/faculty ratio is 16:1.

Library
The M. Louis Salmon Library has more than 412,000 books, along with collections of U.S. government documents, sound recordings, microform and microfiche. There are also subscriptions to 2,766 periodicals.

Academic recognition
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT ranks UAHuntsville among the 150 best national doctoral universities – a distinction shared by only seven percent of the more than 2,000 four-year colleges in America. UAHuntsville's academic reputation has been consistently recognized by other respected national publications. BARRON'S PROFILES OF AMERICAN COLLEGES lists UAHuntsville as "very competitive," the only public university in Alabama to achieve this ranking. UAHuntsville also was highlighted as being among "Top Colleges for Top Students" by PETERSON'S COMPETITIVE COLLEGES. The university has been recognized by America's 100 Best College Buys for eleven consecutive years for providing students a high quality education at a competitively low cost.

Location
Located at the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, Huntsville is a national center of aerospace and high technology research and development. It is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and major U. S. Army research and development centers at Redstone Arsenal including the U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), and the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). UAHuntsville is the anchor tenant in Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the United States and home to more than 225 high technology and research companies with more than 23,000 employees.

Academic calendar
UAHuntsville is on the semester system, offering a full program of undergraduate and graduate day and night classes throughout the year, including the summer.

Mailing address: The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Ala. 35899.
Telephone: 256.824.6120 or 1-800-UAH-CALL.

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