Qualifying for Services

Upward Bound provides academic enrichment necessary for potential first-generation college students and/or economically disadvantaged youth to complete both high school and college.

To qualify for the program students must:

• Be enrolled in grade 9 or 10 at one of our target schools;
• Possess academic potential;
• Need the services we provide in order to fulfill academic goals;
• Be a potential first-generation college student (i.e. generally, neither parent has a bachelor's degree, or if child lives either with one parent and receives no support from the other, or with a guardian and that person does not have a degree); and
• Be from a low-income family.

UMUB Target Schools:

• Bibb County Schools
  • Bibb County High School
  • West Blocton High School
• Chilton County Schools
  • Chilton County High School
  • Isabella High School
  • Jemison High school
  • Maplesville High School
  • Thorsby High School
  • Verbena High School
• Shelby County Schools
  • Calera High School
  • Montevallo High School
  • Shelby County High School
  • Thompson High School
  • Vincent High School