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UAHuntsville is a doctoral-granting, research-intensive university. Approximately half of the university's graduates earn a degree in engineering or science, making the university one of the leading producers of engineers and physical scientists in Alabama.

UAHuntsville enrolls more than 7,400 students seeking to advance their knowledge.

UAHuntsville offers 60 academic programs through its six colleges — Business, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Nursing, Science and Graduate Studies - including 29 bachelor's degree programs, 18 Masters' degree programs, and 13 doctoral programs.

UAHuntsville is ranked by U.S. News &World Report among the 175 best national doctoral universities — a distinction shared by only 7 percent of the more than 2,000 four-year colleges in America.

UAHuntsville's graduate level engineering management program has been singled out as being the best in the nation by the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM).

UAHuntsville's undergraduate business program has been ranked by business deans and senior faculty at AACSB accredited business schools among the top business schools in the US for 2008; among the top 10 percent, as reported in U.S. News & World Report. UAHuntsville ranks at number 79 among public business schools.

UAHuntsville is the only public university in Alabama ranked as "very competitive" in Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, and is rated among "Top Colleges for Top Students" in Peterson's Competitive Colleges.

UAHuntsville researchers have gained international reputations in fields as varied as astrophysics, mechanical and aerospace engineering, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, modeling and simulation, optics, Earth and space science and propulsion.

UAHuntsville consistently ranks among the top universities in the nation in NASA-sponsored research.

UAHuntsville's technology management program ranks in the top 20 in America by the National Research Council

UAHuntsville scientists conducting quantum physics research with the Hubble Telescope was considered by Discovery magazine as one of the top science stories of 2003.

UAHuntsville is the anchor tenant in Cummings Research Park, the second largest research park in the United States.