Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you are interested in studying patient safety and healthcare quality, you may want to check out the program at University of Alabama at Birmingham. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 22,563 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality section at the bottom of this page.

UAB Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

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 patient safety and healthcare quality at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UAB Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Rankings

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Student Demographics at UAB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the patient safety and healthcare quality majors at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

UAB Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 32% of patient safety and healthcare quality master's degrees went to men and 68% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 30% men graduate in patient safety and healthcare quality each year. UAB does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 2% more men than average.

Of the students who received a patient safety and healthcare quality master's degree from UAB, 64% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level.

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 patient safety and healthcare quality.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Health/Medical Physics
• General Public Health

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.