Rankings & Data

  • The undergraduate business program was ranked in the top 50 nationally in a recent U.S. News and World Report study.
  • The undergraduate accounting program was ranked in the top 20 nationally in recent Public Accounting Report rankings.
  • The Manderson Graduate School of Business was ranked 20th among approximately 350 public universities offering an M.B.A. degree, and ranked 9th in the country for the quickest investment recapture period in the recent rankings of graduate schools by Forbes magazine.
  • The University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School of Business earned three top-10 rankings in the most recent issue of The Princeton Review’s “Best Business School” guide. UA’s graduate business program ranked fourth for campus facilities, fifth for quality of professors and eighth for administration.
  • In a recent survey of more than 700 schools by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine, The University of Alabama was distinguished as one of the top schools for entrepreneurs. The Culverhouse College of Commerce ranked 20th in the list of top entrepreneurship schools.
  • An article in the Journal of Applied Finance places The University of Alabama’s finance department among the top two dozen or so universities producing doctoral graduates who go on to attain titled positions in finance education.
  • The finance department ranked 14th according to a study, titled “A Ranking of Teaching Quality in Finance Departments Based on Contributions in Financial Education Literature.”
  • A study published in the Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association ranks The University of Alabama real estate program 28th in real estate research. The study also ranks Dr. Leonard Zumpano, professor of finance and director of the Alabama Real Estate Research and Education Center, among the top 50 individual authors who have published in the top three real estate journals based on the influence of research works as measured by citations.

University Data

The University Factbook contains data about students, faculty, programs and many other aspects of The University of Alabama.