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UAHuntsville Facts and Figures
- UAHuntsville is listed as "Very Competitive" by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, the only public university in Alabama to receive this rating.
- UAHuntsville has been named as one of "America's 100 Best College Buys" for twelve consecutive years.
- Princeton Review designated UAHuntsville as on of the "Best in the Southeast Universities for 2006."
- U. S. News & World Report ranks UAHuntsville in the top 10 percent in the nation in Business Administration and in the top 15 percent internationally.
- Four UAHuntsville research disciplines rank in the top 50 in the nation in federal research funding, according to the National Science Foundation. UAHuntsville's atmospheric science program was 19th in the nation in funding, followed by computer science at 20th, mechanical engineering at 26th, and electrical engineering at 49th.
- UAHuntsville consistently ranks among the top 20 universities in the nation for awarding bachelor's engineering degrees to women, according to the American Society of Engineering Educators.
- UAHuntsville attracts approximately $50 million per year in externally funded research.
- UAHuntsville generates more than $10 in external research contracts for every $1 in state funds received for research activities.
- UAHuntsville's library has more than 400,000 volumes available for public use.
- UAHuntsville was the lead university in developing the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative.
- UAHuntsville has developed an innovative technology to recycle garbage and cut the use of landfill space by 90 percent.
- UAHuntsville has developed a new environmentally-friendly foam that is more cost effective for industries to use in prototype-making than wood or metal.
- UAHuntsville ranks sixth in the nation in NASA research funding to universities.
- UAHuntsville's technology management program ranks in the top 20 in America by the National Research Council.
- UAHuntsville was the lead institution and is home to the National Space Science and Technology Center, a national research laboratory consortium.
- UAHuntsville’s College of Administrative Science is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, International. AACSB-International is the premier agency for accrediting business programs, accrediting only the top 15 percent of business schools worldwide.
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