- 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 2018 edition of "Best Online Programs".
- UAB strengthens local innovation as an Innovative Corps Site for the National Science Foundation.
- Featured on CNBC Squawk Box and in Bloomberg Businessweek, the UAB Green and Gold Fund is a student investment fund that generates significant scholarship funding and has over $550K in assets.
- 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.
- 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.
