Alabama colleges and universities

There are 51colleges, universities, and technical schools in Alabama. Combined, these Alabamiancolleges and universitiesemploy 10,008 people, earn more than $1 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $3 billion.

Types of colleges and universities in Alabama

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
51
$1,001,035,610
31
$608,763,957
12
$390,565,717
5
$1,705,936
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Colleges and universities by major Alabama cities

Metro areaNonprofitsRevenues
11
$466,996,430
7
$121,026,505
7
$70,051,639
6
$84,719,885
5
$5,787,108
4
$19,205,422
2
$400,890
2
$4,746,949
1
$10,156,040
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Job trends for Alabama colleges and universities

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
10
1-10
1
11-25
3
26-100
4
101 to 1,000
9
1,000+
3
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of colleges and universities in Alabama

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
9
$250k to $1M
7
$1M to $5M
3
$5M to $25M
6
$25M to $100M
8
$100M+
2
Key takeaways for revenue stats:
  • Large organizations like Samford University, Tuskegee University, Faulkner University, Oakwood University, and Miles College earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Alabama colleges and universities.
  • Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 0.4% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Alabama colleges and universities with more than $100 million account for 54.3% of nonprofit earnings.

Directory of colleges and universities in Alabama


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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "B40: Higher Education Institutions" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.