University of Alabama

University of Alabama

 

 The higher education programs in Alabama include fourteen universities (four years of study), and high schools (two years of study), and seventeen private universities. There are two medical schools in the State (University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of South Alabama), two veterinary universities (Auburn University and Tuskegee University), a dental school (University of Alabama at Birmingham), College of Optometry (University of Alabama at Birmingham), two pharmacy schools (Auburn University and Samford University), and five law schools (University of Alabama school of Law, Birmingham school of Law, Cumberland School of Law, Miles Law School and the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law). 

The post-secondary public education in Alabama is overseen by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.