UAB Partners With Miles College To Offer Accelerated Master’s Degree

By Adam Pope

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions has created an accelerated master’s 4+1 program with Miles College, a historically black college in Fairfield, Alabama.

Each year, UAB’s Master of Science in Health Informatics program will accept a select number of students in Miles’ Computer and Information Sciences or Management Information Systems undergraduate programs for this new initiative. The initial students will begin the accelerated program in the fall 2018 semester.

This is UAB’s first partnership with a historically black college or university for an accelerated master’s program.“We want to help change the glaring inequities in the number of underrepresented groups working in health IT, and we will, thanks to our partnership with such a strong HBCU,” said Harold P. Jones, Ph.D., dean of the UAB School of Health Professions. “Our HIT program will provide Miles College’s CIS and MIS graduates with advanced education in system design, database analysis and information systems so they can make an immediate impact when they enter the health care workforce.”

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