University of Huston Downtown

The University of Houston-Downtown, listed here as the University of Huston Downtown, is a public university in downtown Houston, Texas, and a member of the University of Houston System. It opened in 1974 after the University of Houston acquired South Texas Junior College. Its main site is the One Main Building, the 1930 Merchants and Manufacturers Building on Buffalo Bayou at the edge of the central business district.

It is organized in colleges of business, humanities and social sciences, public service, and sciences and technology. Bachelor's degrees are the core of teaching. Master's study exists in a limited set of applied fields such as criminal justice, data analytics, and nonprofit management. It is an urban teaching campus, not a medical or law school and not a large doctoral research university.

Enrollment is about 14,000 students, many of them commuters, transfer students, and working adults. The student body is among the more ethnically mixed in Texas public higher education. Faculty number several hundred. Alumni work mainly in Houston business, government, and public-sector jobs.

Graduate study is coursework master's degrees, often in evening hours for employed students, on a semester calendar. There is little traditional on-campus housing. Graduate students live in Houston and use downtown transit; daily life is that of a city-center commuter campus along the bayou.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Huston Downtown lists 1 master's program, in business & management.