University of Alabama at Birmingham FAQ

The pay as at august 2019 was above minimum wage for starters and it goes up by 50 cents every new semester. You learn more about the school by building a relationship with Alumni You can network with people from your field via phonecall

Raising funds could get exhausting as a lot of people might hang up on you/ not pick up calls

Flexible work and lots of opportunities to get involved with healthcare research projects

Underpaid compared to other university stipends

The benefits are some of the best in the area.

UAB has a decaying infrastructure and not enough money to replace/repair what they have effectively. They have a huge amount of empty space and make research departments pay enormous fees to keep the increasingly problematic space. This has created a cramped environment where departments are reducing their footprints to the point where there is not enough space for proper research to be done to increase the grant funding they base their dollars per square foot metrics. If COVID had not been so impactful, this may have not been as problematic but to implement such huge changes during a pandemic is fairly shortsighted.

Quit charging so much for nearly nonfunctional space.

Exposure to high-level research and techniques

No way to advance unless you have a high degree