About Our Campus

UAHuntsville has the largest research expenditures in the nation (more than $83 million in 2009-10) compared to all other public universities of its size (~ 7,700 students.) These expenditures rank UAHuntsville in the top 100 of the nation's public research universities.

UAHuntsville ranks second to Georgia Tech in annual research expenditures as a percentage of total budgetary expenditures when compared to the 31 universities in the Southern Universities Group.

Four UAHuntsville research disciplines rank in the top 50 in the nation in federal research funding, according to the National Science Foundation.

UAHuntsville's earth systems science program was in the top 10, atmospheric science was 19th in national funding, computer science at 20th, mechanical engineering at 26th, and electrical engineering at 49th.

UAHuntsville is the first university in the United States to have Oak Ridge National Laboratory operate offices on a college campus. Oak Ridge has formal affiliations with 103 universities across the nation and around the world. Savannah River National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex also have campus offices.

 

UAHuntsville is partnered with MIT, The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of California-Berkeley to win part of a $57 million scientific experiment on NASA's $1billion Solar Probe Mission.

UAHuntsville was among 17 research organizations and universities in the U.S. invited to join the National Systems Engineering Research Center created by the Department of Defense and National Security Agency.

UAHuntsville consistently ranks among the top schools in the nation in NASA research funding to universities.

UAHuntsville's College of Business was ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. by the National Science Foundation for contracts and grants.

UAHuntsville has some of the highest academic entry standards of any public university in Alabama - the average ACT of the freshman class of 2010 is 25.4.

The cost of education at UAHuntsville (tuition, fees, housing, meals and parking) is the lowest of our peer research universities in Alabama.