ABOUT MILES

Miles College, founded in 1898, is a premier Liberal Arts College in the City of Fairfield, Alabama, which is located in metropolitan Birmingham. The noble founders of the College saw educated leadership as the paramount need in the black community. Miles, which is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) for the awarding of Baccalaureate Degrees, is the only four-year College in the historic Birmingham, Alabama metropolitan area designated as a Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Miles College is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) higher learning College. The College is one of only 39 HBCUs to have the designation as a United Negro College Fund (UNCF) member.

Miles College’s brand is civic engagement and activism. Following the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) Albany Campaign in the early 1960s, the organization decided that the next campaign should be in Birmingham because students at Miles College were already engaged in non-violent civil protests and boycotts against segregated public facilities. In essence, the activism of Miles College students led to Birmingham becoming a crucial epicenter for the Civil Rights Movement.

The College offers baccalaureate programs with majors such as Accounting, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Communications, Computer and Information Sciences, History, Language Arts, Criminal Justice, Early Childhood/Elementary Education, English, Mathematics, Political Science and Social Work. In sum, Miles offers 28 Bachelor Degree programs in six academic divisions with an enrollment of approximately 1,800 students.

We attribute the success of our students to diligence and academic seriousness as well as to the faculty members who immerse themselves into the holistic education of students. Faculty members not only teach students inside of the classroom; but, are part of their external classroom lives as well. Miles College has 135 faculty members who are visibly committed to higher learning and professional development. Faculty members are diverse and bring professional and personal experiences from over twenty countries.