Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions at University of Alabama at Birmingham

What traits are you looking for in a rehabilitation school? To help you decide if University of Alabama at Birmingham is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's rehabilitation program.

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and approximately 22,563 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions section at the bottom of this page.

UAB Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation
• Doctorate Degree in Rehabilitation

Online Classes Are Available at UAB

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UAB offers distance education options for rehabilitation at the following degree levels:

UAB Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Rankings

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There were 63 students who received their doctoral degrees in rehabilitation, making the school the #78 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Rehabilitation Student Demographics at UAB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the rehabilitation majors at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

UAB Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions Master’s Program

Of the 57 rehabilitation students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from UAB, about 14% were men and 86% were women.

Of the students who received a rehabilitation master's degree from UAB, 67% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the rehabilitation master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 33% of degree recipients. That is 8% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a master's in rehabilitation.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	38
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions

The following rehabilitation concentations are available at University of Alabama at Birmingham. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Alabama at Birmingham. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Occupational Therapy	64
Physical Therapy/Therapist	51
Other Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions	38

Related Majors

• Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences
• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science
• Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services
• Health Sciences & Services
• Mental & Social Health Services

Careers That Rehabilitation Grads May Go Into

A degree in rehabilitation can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Engineers	3,730	$115,710
Physical Therapists	2,780	$90,620
Health Specialties Professors	1,960	$108,310
Occupational Therapists	1,260	$83,810
Rehabilitation Counselors	980	$43,080

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.