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UAB was ranked among the top

of universities worldwide in the U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 "Best Global Universities" list.

programs in top 25, U.S. News & World Report 2024 "America's Best Graduate Schools" list.

UAB received a record

in research grants and awards for FY2023. Over the past nine years, extramural sponsored funding at UAB has increased by 73%.

UAB's campus is home to more than 4,400 trees, earning the Arbor Day Foundation's Tree Campus USA designation for nine consecutive years.

With more than 28,000 employees, UAB is Alabama's

single-site, non-federal employer.

The first phase of UAB's Science-Engineering Complex opened in August 2023.

of UAB’s specialties ranked among the nation’s top 50 programs of their kind in the 2023-2024 Best Hospitals report from U.S. News & World Report.

UAB Arts in Medicine has served more than 200,000 patients, families and staff members at UAB and Children’s of Alabama and in the community since 2013.

licensing income in FY2023 from UAB research

For the

straight year, UAB enrollment surpassed 21,000.

Live HealthSmart Alabama, the winner of UAB's first Grand Challenge, has conducted 2,300+ comprehensive health screenings through its Mobile Wellness van (connecting 900+ people to primary care and preventive screenings) and served nearly 7,000 customers in 25 communities through its Mobile Market.

The UAB Women & Infants Center houses the only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Alabama.

UAB's annual economic impact.

A transformative gift of $10 million from UAB alumnus J. Frank Barefield Jr. will name the J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Department of Criminal Justice in the College of Arts and Sciences and the UAB J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Entrepreneurship Program in the Collat School of Business.

UAB was recognized as a 

Diversity Champion and Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award recipient by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

Conde Nast Traveler named Birmingham as one of its "Best Places to Go in 2022."

MBA dual-degree programs offered through the Collat School of Business and other schools on campus focused on medicine, engineering and public health, including DMD/MBA, MD/MBA, and OD/MBA programs.

While UAB hosted The World Games from July 7-17, 2022, Campus Dining prepared 10,000 meals for up to 3,400 diners per day.

The O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB celebrated its

anniversary in June 2022 and announced a five-year, $27.5 million renewal of its core National Cancer Institute grant the same month.

In a breakthrough study published in January 2022, UAB researchers proved that genetically modified pig kidneys can be transplanted into a human.

Transformative gift, the largest in UAB history, established the UAB Heersink School of Medicine in 2021.

Forbes named UAB its

Best Large Employer for 2021.

The Equal Access Birmingham Clinic, run by UAB Heersink School of Medicine students, sees hundreds of patients per year in a dedicated space just off campus.

UAB ranks 33rd in federal research funding, based on 2021 figures, which is

among public universities. 

accredited school of public health in Alabama.

UAB was named America's

Best Employer for Diversity among colleges and universities by Forbes in 2021.

Protective Stadium, a state-of-the-art, 45,000-seat venue in downtown Birmingham, is the new home of UAB Blazers Football. The stadium opened in 2021.

The School of Dentistry averages

patient visits and 8,400 new patients served each year.

The emergency department at UAB Hospital-Highlands has been designated as a Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department, the only one in Alabama, the first in the Southeast and one of only 17 globally.

In 2021, Collat School of Business students saved local working families more than

in commercial tax preparation fees by volunteering their time to prepare 1,325 tax returns for free. Their work secured more than $2.68 million in refunds for the families.

UAB's newly renovated, expanded Infusion Therapy Clinic is the largest and

magnet-designated infusion therapy center in the state.

UAB Medicine provides care to people in every county in Alabama.

UAB Hospital is the

largest hospital in the United States, according to the Beckers Hospital Review 2021 rankings.

UAB Hospital was granted recognition as a Magnet-designated organization, a prestigious symbol of nursing excellence, for an unprecedented 5th consecutive time in 2019, becoming only the

hospital worldwide to achieve this distinction.

McMahon Hall, which opened in spring 2021, houses more than 730 students and includes a dining hall seating roughly 170 students.

Honors Hall, which opened in August 2020, is one of the latest campus buildings to be LEED certified for its energy- and water-saving design.

UAB ranked 

in the U.S., and in the top 12 worldwide, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2019 Young University Rankings.

UAB ranked

in the world by Times Higher Education in 2020 for research and education efforts around health and well-being.

UAB celebrated its 

anniversary in 2019.

UAB's Master of Science in Health Administration program is ranked

in the country in the 2020 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings.

investment in UAB Libraries has made them model 21st century learning spaces.

The Technology Innovation Center, a new home for UAB's Cheaha supercomputer and IT services, opened in September 2021.

Return on investment from research in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center. With base funding of $10 million, Cancer Center investigators receive $140 million in grants and contracts.

The UAB School of Dentistry is transforming oral health nationwide through its leadership of the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.

Special freezers developed by UAB engineers are in orbit aboard the International Space Station.

In 2019, UAB was selected as one of 

national Udall Centers of Excellence in Parkinson's disease.

A ridge on Mars is named for UAB physicist Thomas Wdowiak, Ph.D., who played an important role in NASA's missions to the Red Planet.

UAB is one of

inaugural NIH-designated Centers for AIDS Research.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has designated UAB as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University, among 65 higher education institutions nationwide to receive this prestigious honor. 

The UAB Gospel Choir, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015, has performed sold-out concerts around the world.

UAB is home to one of

World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization collaborating centers in the United States focused on nursing and midwifery.

UAB offers the 

Health Physics and Nuclear Medicine Technology programs in Alabama.

The $48.5-million Hill Student Center includes a 276-seat theater, multiple dining options and more in 160,000+ square feet of space.

The Mock Trial, Ethics Bowl and Bioethics Bowl teams in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences have all won

championships.

The student-led Green and Gold Fund manages more than $500,000 in assets.

An ongoing living donor kidney transplant chain at UAB is the world's longest. The chain of surgeries has given more than 

people so far the gift of life.

listeners in North Central Alabama tune in weekly to NPR affiliate WBHM on UAB's campus. The station celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016; it went on the air on Dec. 5, 1976.

original letters from Florence Nightingale are on display at the UAB School of Nursing.

The Campaign for UAB surpassed $1 billion raised in November 2018. 

The employee-led UAB Benevolent Fund works with more than

local nonprofit organizations.

In the decade from 2003-2013, UAB's Health Administration program was one of the nation's leaders in the number of black doctoral recipients graduated, according to a 2017 study.

Henry Peters, founding dean of the UAB School of Optometry, is the first optometrist to be inducted into the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame.

Level 1 adult trauma center in Alabama (as designated by the American College of Surgeons).

UAB's Critical Care Transport team has transported more than

patients.

The School of Nursing's Providing Access to Health Care (PATH) Clinic cares for uninsured and underinsured patients, improving patient outcomes, decreasing hospital admissions and significantly reducing hospital costs.

UAB has one of only two Level 1 ocular trauma centers in the United States.

UAB Callahan Eye Hospital is the only specialty hospital in Alabama focusing on eye care.

Alabama students, from kindergarten to community colleges, reached annually by programs from the UAB Center for Community OutReach Development.

UAB faculty members have been presidents of the American Heart Association.

Millions of gallons of water per year are saved through UAB Sustainability efforts.