University of Alabama, Birmingham

How it scores

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 1,240 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country (United States).

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Admit rate

88.2% src

Average SAT

1,258 src

Yield (admits who enrol)

22% src

Median earnings 10 years after entry

$54,501 src

40-year return on investment (Georgetown CEW)

$1.76M src

Graduation rate (6 years)

64% src

Rhodes Scholars, 2021–26

0 src

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)

7 src

Heads of state or government (Wikidata)

0 src

Students (undergraduate / total)

11,635 / 16,930

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =446. On strength alone: 255. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field

11.1% (10.6%–11.8%)

Papers in the top 1% of their field

1.1% (0.9%–1.3%)

Top-10% papers (fractional count)

791

All papers (fractional count)

7,106

International co-authored

32.2%

Open access

71.7%

Papers from 2020–23 since retracted

5 (0.28 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Position over time

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.