Uab Campus Dining

Founded in 1969, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public research University in the Southside neighborhood of Birmingham, AL, and is the largest single employer in the state. Though UAB offers more than 160 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, 15.6%of students are in the Collat School of Business. Other popular programs are biology, biomedical sciences and kinesiology. The school has a unique academic forgiveness policy that allows students to retake up to four classes in which they received a C grade or below without impacting their GPA. UABs medical center is highly ranked nationally and home to robust programs in cancer, precision medicine and biomedical engineering. The university offers numerous merit-based scholarships for in-state and out-of-state students, based on academic performance and standardized testing, as well as art, performance and athletics.UAB students can join more than 348 extracurricular organizations, including 26 chapters of Greek life, 24 clubs sports teams and 18 varsity teams of UAB Blazers who compete in the NCAAs Division I. One of the schools traditions is the annual Gurney Derby Race, where students drag race with decorated gurneys during homecoming week.