unitid 100751 · Tuscaloosa, AL · public 4-year · city (midsize)
The University of Alabama
Public university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, US
- founded
- 1831
- enrollment 2023
- 42,869
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- ua.edu/
The University of Alabama is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and largest of the public universities in Alabama as well as the University of Alabama System. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". wikipedia rev 1361795328 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
77%
38th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
33,227
96th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
18%
undergrads on Pell grants
13th pctl among public 4-years
completion
73%
finish within 150% time
91st pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$33,382
94th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$22,420
after aid, aided students
96th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$59,221
after entry, Title IV students
73rd pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$22,750
77th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $19,169 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k20%
- 30-48k12%
- 48-75k14%
- 75-110k14%
- 110k+39%
- Median family income
- $66,734
- First-generation students
- 23%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $12,180
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.6× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 572 | $84,758 | $25,000 |
| Marketing. | 569 | $80,393 | $23,071 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 374 | $80,311 | $25,006 |
| Psychology, General. | 356 | $47,796 | $25,000 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 315 | $64,089 | $25,000 |
| Business/Commerce, General. | 281 | — | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 261 | $114,582 | — |
| Criminology. | 253 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 230 | $61,478 | $24,412 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | 226 | $79,435 | $23,000 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 224 | $91,807 | $24,755 |
| Political Science and Government. | 200 | $61,049 | $23,785 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 2,345 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsbasketball player (547) · American football player (381) · researcher (272) · politician (187) · lawyer (155) · university teacher (108) · judge (64) · baseball player (58)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Jimmy Wales
236 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Harper Lee
107 wikis · Public domain
Edward O. Wilson
70 wikis · CC BY 2.5
Timothy Leary
61 wikis · Public domain
Lady Bird Johnson
59 wikis · Public domain
Bernard Madoff
57 wikis · Public domain
Jeff Sessions
48 wikis · Public domain
Sela Ward
44 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Kirani James
40 wikis · GFDL
Jim Nabors
38 wikis · Public domain
Robert J. Van de Graaff
37 wikis · Public domain
Gerald Wallace
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Richard Shelby
34 wikis · Public domain
Sonequa Martin-Green
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Also recorded: George Armitage Miller.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1361795328), CC BY-SA 4.0.