Management Information Systems at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you plan to study management information systems, take a look at what University of Alabama at Birmingham has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and has a total student population of 22,563. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 42 students received their master's degree in MIS.

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

UAB Management Information Systems Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in MIS

Online Classes Are Available at UAB

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UAB offers distance education options for MIS at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UAB Management Information Systems Rankings

MIS Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB Management Information Systems Master’s Program

The MIS program at UAB awarded 42 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 55% of these degrees went to men with the other 45% going to women.

Of the students who received a MIS master's degree from UAB, 55% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the MIS master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 40% of degree recipients. That is 3% better 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 master's in MIS.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Accounting
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That MIS Grads May Go Into

A degree in MIS 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
Computer Programmers	7,750	$87,340
Computer and Information Systems Managers	3,200	$126,300

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.