Points of Pride

  • U.S. News & World Report ranks UAB as one of nation's "Best Undergraduate Business Programs" in its 2018 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges.

  • The Princeton Review reports UAB Collat School of Business as one of the nation's best in its 2018 edition of "Best Business Schools".

  • The UAB MBA program is recognized by U.S. News & World Report in its 2018 Best Graduate Schools ranking in the top 15% of part-time MBA programs.  The highest ranked part-time program and the largest fully accredited MBA program in Alabama.

  • U.S. News & World Report ranks UAB Collat School of Business online undergraduate and graduate programs among the nation's best in the 2017 edition of "Best Online Programs".

  • UAB strengthens local innovation as an Innovative Corps Site for the National Science Foundation.

  • First business school in Alabama to require internship or similar experience as a part of the curricula.

  • Featured on CNBC Squawk Box and in Bloomberg Businessweek, the three-time international award-winning UAB Green and Gold Fund is a student investment fund that generates significant scholarship funding and has over $550K in assets.

  • In a joint initiative with Innovation Depot in 2014, established the UAB iLab to help students incubate creative ideas and build new businesses while in school.

  • The UAB Center for Sales Leadership is the second of its kind in the southeast to offer training beyond the classroom to business professionals from a range of companies throughout the region.

  • The UAB Professional Sales Certificate is named one of the top sales programs in the nation by the Sales Education Foundation (SEF).

  • The UAB Charles & Patsy Collat Industrial Distribution (ID) Program is a highly unique degree program, one of only a handful in the U.S., that offers a variety of outstanding career opportunities with a long-standing recognition of student success in the industrial and medical industries.

  • UAB's accounting program has earned endorsement by the Institute of Management Accountants, one of the largest and most respected associations focused exclusively on advancing the management accounting profession.

  • Accreditation by AACSB was achieved in 1973 in record time of just two years – never accomplished before or since by any business school in the world.

  • The UAB accounting program was among the first 18 accounting programs to receive accreditation by AACSB the very first year the association began evaluating accounting programs in 1982.