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There are over 58 colleges and universities in the U.S.
state of Alabama. The largest school is Troy
University, which enrolls 29,000 students (as of fall 2008)
across four Alabama campuses (Troy, Dothan, Montgomery, and Phenix
City), as well as sixty learning sites in seventeen other states
and eleven other countries. Calhoun Community College is
the largest 2-year college, with an enrollment of 9,117. The
smallest institution is Huntsville Bible College, an interdenominational seminary, with an enrollment
of 49 students. The oldest institutions are the public University of North Alabama
and the Catholic
Church-affiliated Spring Hill College, both founded
in 1830.
The majority are accredited by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)[1], but
four are accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education
(ABHE)[2], four
by the Council on Occupational
Education (COE)[3], and
one by the Accrediting
Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS)[4]. There
are also 8 four-year and 3 two-year Historically
black colleges and universities.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham and the
University of South Alabama
feature the only two medical schools in
the state. The University of Alabama
School of Law, the Cumberland School of Law at Samford
University, and the Thomas Goode Jones School
of Law at Faulkner University are ABA-accredited law schools. The Birmingham School of Law and
Miles Law
School (unaffiliated with Miles College) are unaccredited law
programs.
Institutions
Notes
Out-of-state
institutions
Six schools based in other states offer programs at locations in
Alabama:
Federal
institutions
The United States
Military maintains seven military
education centers in Alabama:
Defunct
institutions
References
- ^
Commission on
Colleges, Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools, http://www.sacscoc.org/, retrieved
2008-10-19
- ^
Bible College,
Association for Biblical Higher
Education, http://www.bible-college.org/cgi-bin/Schools/ViewSchoolList.pl, retrieved
2008-10-19
- ^
Council on Occupational
Education, http://www.council.org/, retrieved
2008-10-19
- ^
Accredited
Institutions, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges
and Schools, http://acics.org/accredited/, retrieved
2008-10-19
- ^
College
Navigator, United States
Department of Education Institute of Education
Sciences, http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=AL, retrieved
2008-10-19
- ^
Garrison, Greg (February 21, 1997).
"New lease on life: Students returning to Payne". The
Birmingham News: pp. 1H.
- ^
History, St.
Bernard Preparatory School, http://www.stbernardprep.com/cms_content.php/100, retrieved
2008-10-19
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