List of colleges and universities in Houston

The following is a list of colleges and universities in Houston located within the city limits.

Public universities

Four distinct state universities are located in the city of Houston.

The University of Houston System has three separate and distinct institutions within the city. Each institution is a stand-alone university and confers its own degrees. Its flagship institution is the University of Houston, a nationally recognized top-tier research university.^[1][2][3][4] The two other institutions are stand-alone universities; they are not branch campuses of the University of Houston.

Admissions into each institution of the University of Houston System is separate, and each institution in the System has distinct admission criteria and requirements.

Institution	Founded	Enrollment (Fall 2011)	Campus Acreage	Endowment	Research Expenditures (FY 2011)	Carnegie Classification[5]
University of Houston 4800 Calhoun Rd	1927	39,820	667	$589.8 million[6]	$127.5 million[6]	Research (Very High)
University of Houston–Clear Lake 2700 Bay Area Blvd	1971	8,188	524	$22.6 million[7]	$2.2 million[7]	Master's (Large)
University of Houston–Downtown 1 Main St	1974	12,918	20	$34.7 million[8]	$1.5 million[8]	Baccalaureate–Diverse
Texas Southern University 3100 Cleburne St	1927	9,557	150			Doctoral/Research

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  University of Houston
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  UH–Clear Lake
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  UH–Downtown

Community colleges

• Houston Community College System
• Lone Star College System
• San Jacinto College

Private universities

Rice University

Nonsectarian

• Rice University, established in 1912, is a private Tier One research university located at 6100 Main, Houston, Texas^[9][10] Rice enrolled 3,001 undergraduate, 897 post-graduate, and 1,247 doctoral students and awarded 1,448 degrees in 2007. The university is organized into eight schools offering 40 undergraduate degree programs,^[11] 51 masters programs, and 29 doctoral programs.^[12][13]
• North American College, established in 2007, is a private college offering bachelor degree programs in three disciplines: Computer science, Business administration and Education^[14].

Sectarian

• Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, Texas, offers more than 50 undergraduate majors. Pre-professional programs range from Biblical Languages to Nursing.^[15]
• University of St. Thomas, located at 3800 Montrose, Houston, Texas, is a comprehensive Catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts. Founded by 1947 by Basilian Fathers, it serves as the only Catholic university in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.^[16]

Law schools

University of Houston Law Center

Public

• University of Houston Law Center
• Thurgood Marshall School of Law

The University of Houston Law Center is one of two top-tier public law schools in Texas, and is the only top-tier law school in Houston. It ranks 56th among the nation's "Best Law Schools" in U.S. News & World Report. The law school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 academic colleges of the University of Houston. The law school's facilities are located on the university's 667-acre campus in southeast Houston.

Private

• South Texas College of Law

Health institutions

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is ranked among the top Schools of medicine in the United States.

Public

• University of Houston College of Pharmacy
• University of Houston College of Optometry
• Institute of Biosciences and Technology
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• MD Anderson Cancer Center

Texas Southern School of Pharmacy and Health Science

Private

• Baylor College of Medicine
• Memorial Hermann Clinical Innovation and Research Institute (CIRI)^[17]
• The Methodist Hospital Research Institute^[18]

Former institutions

• Gulf Coast Bible College (moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1985)^[19]
• Christian College of America^[19]

See also

	Houston portal
	University portal

• List of colleges and universities in Texas

References

1. ^ Bonnin, Richard. "Carnegie Foundation Gives University of Houston its Highest Classification for Research Success, Elevating UH to Tier One Status". University of Houston. http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2011articles/Jan2011/011811CarnegieTierOne.php. Retrieved 2011-02-08. 
2. ^ "UH achieves Tier One status in research". Houston Business Journal. 2011-01-21. http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/print-edition/2011/01/21/uh-achieves-tier-one-status-in-research.html. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
3. ^ "UH takes big step up to Tier One status". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7386162.html. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
4. ^ "University of Houston named Tier One school for research activity". KHOU.com. http://www.khou.com/news/local/University-of-Houston-named-Tier-One-school-for-research-activity-114137594.html. Retrieved 2011-07-06. 
5. ^ [1] Carnegie Foundation University Classification | accessdate = 2011-02-06
6. ^ ^{a b} "University of Houston Progress Card". University of Houston System. http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/chancellor/strategic-direction/strategic-documents/UH%202011-12%20Progress%20Card.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-18. 
7. ^ ^{a b} "University of Houston–Clear Lake Progress Card". University of Houston System. http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/chancellor/strategic-direction/strategic-documents/UHCL%202011-12%20Progress%20Card.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-18. 
8. ^ ^{a b} "University of Houston–Downtown Progress Card". University of Houston System. http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/chancellor/strategic-direction/strategic-documents/UHD%202011-12%20Progress%20Card.pdf. Retrieved 2011-11-18. 
9. ^ Rice University
10. ^ "Rice University - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report". http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/3604. Retrieved 2008-12-24. 
11. ^ "Majors and Programs of Study". Rice University. http://www.futureowls.rice.edu/futureowls/Majors_and_Programs_of_Study.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-22. 
12. ^ "Information for Graduate Students". Rice University. http://www.rice.edu/catalog/2008_2009/PDF/08_GraduateInfo.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-22. 
13. ^ "Rice Facts - Academic Schools". Rice University. http://www.professor.rice.edu/professor/Academic_Schools.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-22. 
14. ^ North American College
15. ^ HBU - Visit HBU
16. ^ Contact UST
17. ^ memorialhermann.org
18. ^ 15261_Meth_TMHRI_PROD.indd
19. ^ ^{a b} Moore, Louis. "Ecumenism the byword on high-rise college campus." Houston Chronicle. Saturday August 31, 1985. Religion 1. Retrieved on September 25, 2011.