General Engineering at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you plan to study general engineering, 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 approximately 22,563 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 143 students received their master's degree in engineering.

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

UAB General Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Engineering

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 engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UAB General Engineering Rankings

Engineering Student Demographics at UAB

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

UAB General Engineering Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 143 engineering majors earned their master's degree from UAB. Of these graduates, 80% were men and 20% were women.

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from UAB, 62% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 24% of degree recipients. That is 4% 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 engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	25
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	89
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

Related Majors

• Computer Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Other Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Materials Engineering

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering 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
Engineers	3,730	$115,710
Architectural and Engineering Managers	2,290	$138,470
Engineering Professors	530	$107,400

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.