The University of Alabama Career Outcomes & Earnings

At The University of Alabama, earnings sit above comparable peers, though the model places graduates effectively at its expected level. Azimuth puts the return pillar in the 78th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $70,439 four years after completion, in the 77th percentile. Graduates earn about $131 more than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.

That earnings-beyond-expectations result is in the 55th percentile. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $12,603.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $12,472. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $65,610; the university stands $4,829 above it.

Program choice shapes a wide modeled earnings range at the university. The downside earnings scenario is $49,034, whereas the upside scenario is $92,815; both are scenarios estimated from the program mix rather than observed groups.

At the higher end, median earnings four years after completion reach $115,980 in Computer and Information Sciences, $105,393 in Management Information Systems and Services, and $100,857 in Chemical Engineering. These program figures show why the modeled range is broad.

An estimated 27.2% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment. Four-year earnings cover completers who are working and not enrolled, so that estimate matters when reading the reported median: some graduates pursuing further study are outside that earnings snapshot.

Program choice at The University of Alabama spans higher-earning technical fields and more moderate-earning interdisciplinary and human-sciences fields four years after completion. Management Information Systems and Services pairs median earnings of $105,393 with 104 degrees awarded; Azimuth ranks it #12 nationally within its field.

Chemical Engineering reports $100,857 in median earnings across 159 degrees awarded and holds an Azimuth national field rank of #37. On the more moderate-earning side, Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies shows $56,945 and 89 degrees awarded, with Azimuth placing it #8 nationally within its field.

Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences records $57,205 in median earnings from 120 degrees awarded and ranks #2 nationally in its field by Azimuth. The figures show that a strong field rank and four-year earnings do not always move in lockstep.

Business accounts for 28.6% of bachelor’s degrees awarded, and The University of Alabama has 41 ranked programs. Azimuth ranks Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences #2 nationally in its field among nonprofit four-year institutions; it awarded 120 degrees and had median earnings of $57,205 four years after completion.

Azimuth ranks Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies #4 nationally in its field among nonprofit four-year institutions. It awarded 40 degrees and had median earnings of $65,674 four years after completion.

Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies ranks #8 nationally, awarded 89 degrees, and shows median earnings of $56,945 four years after completion. The rankings span different fields, and the earnings figures vary across them.