Fast Facts

• 11:1 student to faculty ratio
• Zero classes taught by graduate assistants
• 4,658 total enrollment (2009-10)
• Students from 39 states and 19 countries
• 138 undergraduate majors, minors and concentrations
• Eight academic schools: School of the Arts, Howard College of Arts and Sciences, Brock School of Business, Beeson Divinity School, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional studies, Cumberland School of Law, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing and McWhorter School of Pharmacy
• Ranked in top tier of national doctoral research universities by U.S. News & World Report
• Largest privately-supported institution for higher learning in Alabama
• University Libraries hold more than 972,000 volume equivalents
• Chartered on December 29, 1841 in Marion, Alabama, as Howard College