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Law and Criminal Justice Schools
in Birmingham, AL
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Law and Criminal Justice Schools in Birmingham
Birmingham, AL (population: 226,152) has six law and criminal justice schools within its city limits. Samford University, the highest ranked school in the city with a law and criminal justice program, has a total student population of 4,658. It is the 1328th highest ranked school in the USA and the 10th highest in the state of Alabama (#1 is Auburn University Main Campus). To learn more about law and criminal justice programs in Birmingham, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of law and criminal justice professors at Samford University such as Robert Boliek, John Cochran, Charles Cole, John Coleman, C. Taylor Crockett, and Michael Debow.
Law and Criminal Justice students from Birmingham schools who go on to become law and criminal justice professionals, corrections officers, jailers, court reporters, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 556,790 people working as lawyers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $129,020. Also, Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators make on average $63,250 per year and there are about 8,110 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Birmingham-Hoover area alone, there are 60 employed arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators earning an average salary of $45,790. Lawyers in this area earn $131,380/yr and there are 2,150 employed.
Birmingham lies in Jefferson county, which is one of the 67 counties in Alabama. Overall, the Birmingham-Hoover area has 494,530 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $40,060 average annual salary. Thus, about 4 out of every 1000 jobs in Birmingham are held by lawyers, and 0/1000 are held by arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators.
Of the 6 law and criminal justice schools in Birmingham, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Virginia College-Birmingham comes out as the most expensive ($21,586/yr) for law and criminal justice students, with Jefferson State Community College as the lowest, reported at only $6,192/yr.
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Cities Near Birmingham
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Birmingham |
| Tuscaloosa | AL | 93,932 | 3 | 20.4548 | 201 | 47.2 miles |
| Boaz | AL | - | 1 | 17.4406 | 20 | 59.0 miles |
| Alexander City | AL | - | 1 | 11.6004 | 38 | 63.6 miles |
| Selma | AL | - | 3 | 7.26701 | 32 | 78.7 miles |
| Huntsville | AL | 185,501 | 8 | 18.2034 | 320 | 82.2 miles |
| Montgomery | AL | 200,848 | 12 | 20.659 | 359 | 87.0 miles |
| Athens | AL | - | 7 | 24.5606 | 224 | 88.6 miles |
| Auburn University | AL | - | 1 | 74.9047 | 131 | 99.5 miles |