UAH is a key participant in one of the nation's major international centers for advanced technological research and utilizes its position in this environment to provide unique opportunities and creative programs for students, faculty, and the community. UAH is committed to maintaining a diverse academic community of the highest quality, and to providing an environment that facilitates intellectual, cultural, personal, and professional growth. UAH fosters leadership, creative and critical thinking, clear communication, a respect for knowledge and the pursuit of truth, and an engagement in the challenge and pleasure of a lifetime of learning. UAH, through its graduates and its programs, contributes to economic advancement, health care, cultural enrichment, and the quality of life of the region, state, and nation.

History

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is a part of the University of Alabama System. In June 1969, the University of Alabama Board of Trustees established the University of Alabama System with three independent, autonomous campuses at Huntsville, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa. Each campus has a separate president who reports to the Board of Trustees through the chancellor of the system. Academic programs were initiated in Huntsville in 1950; in 1963 degree opportunities at the master's level were provided and in 1964, at the baccalaureate level. The first master's degree based on work begun and completed in Huntsville was awarded in 1964 and the first undergraduate degrees in 1968. Doctoral programs were initiated in physics and engineering in 1971, and the School of Nursing was established the same year. In 1974, in a component of the Alabama School of Medicine, the first full-time medical students began their core clinical experience in Huntsville. (These programs were transferred to direct UAB management in 1995.) In the two decades of the 1970s and 1980s, UAH implemented a broad range of undergraduate degree programs; established master's programs in the liberal arts, nursing, and administrative science; initiated professional degree programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels; and inaugurated selected Ph.D. programs in high-technology fields in the sciences and engineering.

UAH is focused to meet the specific needs of scientific and technological enterprises and the cultural and intellectual needs of a rapidly expanding region. It is UAH's intention to be innovative, even experimental, to explore what is new, to evaluate existing programs continually, to develop and establish curricula and pedagogical techniques calculated to help students live and perform well in a complicated environment.

Accreditation

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Several UAH programs are accredited by their respective accrediting agencies. Academic programs in chemistry are accredited by the American Chemical Society. Seven undergraduate engineering programs (chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial and systems, mechanical, and optical) are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Both undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing are accredited by the National League of Nursing (NLN). Computer science holds accreditation from the Computer Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB). Programs in music and music education are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). All business programs offered by the College of Administrative Science are accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The degree programs are the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with majors in Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Management Information Systems, the Master of Science in Management, the Master of Accountancy, and the Master of Science in Management Information Systems.

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