University of Houston

The University of Houston is a public research university in Houston, Texas, founded in 1927 as Houston Junior College and established as the University of Houston in 1934. It is the flagship of the University of Houston System and occupies a large urban campus southeast of downtown. Its structure is that of a broad state university with close ties to the city's energy, medical, and arts economies.

Colleges include the Cullen College of Engineering, the C. T. Bauer College of Business, the Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership, law, optometry, pharmacy, education, natural sciences and mathematics, and a medical school. Graduate students use energy and materials laboratories, the creative writing program, and professional schools. The nearby Texas Medical Center supports health-related research collaborations.

Enrollment is about 47,000 students, including several thousand graduate and professional students. International students form a sizable share, particularly in engineering and science. Faculty number more than 2,000. Alumni include Olympic sprinter Carl Lewis and actor Jim Parsons.

Doctoral and professional degrees are central in engineering, the physical sciences, law, and optometry, with laboratory or professional supervision as the usual model. Semesters follow a fall-spring calendar with summer terms. Students work on a large campus in Houston, a major energy and medical city. Campus housing and nearby neighborhoods serve a large commuter as well as residential graduate population.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Houston lists 5 graduate programs across 5 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in accounting, earth & environmental sciences and economics. University of Houston holds rank 435 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.