University of Alabama System
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The University of Alabama System encompasses three wholly independent universities in Alabama, USA: the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The schools have a total undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 44,000, with 20,000 students on the campus in Tuscaloosa, 16,000 at UAB and 8,000 at UAH.
The system operates on public funds and received more than $400 million in government contracts and grants in 2002. Chancellor Malcolm Portera and a 15-member board of trustees oversee the system. The university presidents, as of 2004, are Robert Witt (UA), Carol Garrison (UAB) and Frank Franz (UAH).
The University of Alabama, founded in 1831 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is the system's flagship campus. The state established a medical extension center in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1936, and the medical school eventually grew into UAB, a separate institution under the UA banner, in 1966. Likewise, an extension center established in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1950 also became a separate school in 1966.
The Tuscaloosa campus has garnered regional acclaim for its academic programs in business, communications and law. UAB has rapidly emerged as a major international medical research institution, and UAH has largely stayed true to its engineering roots in Huntsville, which is also known as the Rocket City.
External links
- University of Alabama System (http://www.uasystem.ua.edu/)
- University of Alabama (http://ua.edu/)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (http://main.uab.edu/)
- University of Alabama in Huntsville (http://www.uah.edu/)