About UH
Founded in 1927, the University of Houston is
one of Texas’ premier public metropolitan research and teaching
institutions. Each year, we serve more than 35,000 students
in twelve academic colleges and in the interdisciplinary Honors
College. We offer 109 bachelor’s, 131 master’s, 51 doctoral,
and three professional degree programs. UH awards more than 6,500 degrees
annually, with nearly 200,000 alumni.
We are the most ethnically diverse major research university in
the United States. Our student body is 39.5 percent white,
18.7 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, 18.1 percent Hispanic,
13.0 percent African American, and 8.1 percent International. UH
students represent more than 126 nations and 89 percent are Texas
residents.
UH graduates can be found in leadership positions from Capitol
Hill to community nonprofits. Cougars are connected to the community.
Our alumni have done it all—from walking in space to leading major
corporations to winning Olympic gold.
That’s what makes the University of Houston a great
university.
Nationally recognized Programs
- Creative Writing—second in the nation
(U.S. News & World Report).
- Health Law—second in the nation (U.S.
News & World Report).
- Intellectual Property Law—fourth in the
nation (U.S. News & World Report).
- Clinical Psychology Ph.D.—twentieth
in the nation (National Research Council).
- Kinesiology Ph.D.—fifteenth in the nation (American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education).
- E.M.B.A.—seventeenth in the nation
among public universities (based on data from Financial
Times).
- Business Administration (undergraduate)—top
5 percent in the nation (based on data from U.S. News & World
Report).
- Business, Management, Marketing, and
Related Support Services (undergraduate)—third
in nation for producing minority graduates (Diverse Issues
in Higher Education).
- M.B.A.— fifth among public universities
for producing CEOs of S&P 500 companies (based
on data from Bloomberg Markets).
- Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation—top
100 program (Entrepreneur magazine).
- Space Architecture—only graduate program
of its kind in the world.
Faculty
- Nobel Peace Prize—Jody Williams, social
work
- National Medal of Science—C.W. “Paul”
Chu, physics
- Pulitzer Prize—Edward Albee and Lanford
Wilson, theatre
- Tony Award—Edward Albee and Stuart Ostrow,
theatre
- National Academy of Sciences—Neal Amundson,
chemical engineering; C.W. “Paul” Chu, physics; and
Jay Kochi, chemistry
- National Academy of Engineering—Neal
Amundson, chemical engineering; Fazle Hussain, mechanical engineering;
Dan Luss, chemical engineering; Michael Y.H. Pao, mechanical
engineering; John Lienhard, mechanical engineering (emeritus);
Allen Rhodes, mechanical engineering; and James Symons, civil
engineering (emeritus)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences—Neal
Amundson, chemical engineering; C.W. “Paul” Chu, physics.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences—C.W. “Paul”
Chu. Dr.
Chu also is a member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Academia
Sinica, and the Third World Academy of Sciences.
- French National Academy of Technology—Roland
Glowinski, mathematics
- Russian Academy of Sciences—Yuri
Kuznetsov, mathematics
Research
- Research Awards (2005)—$78.7 million,
an increase of $25.6 million in four years.
- Federal Research Awards (2005)—$37.9
million, an increase of $9.3 million in four years.
- Health Research (2005)—The university
has 360 health research projects.
- Nanobiologists—With a National Institutes
of Health grant, UH will lead training to create the world’s
first generation of nanobiologists.
- Cited research—The College of Natural
Science and Mathematics is tenth in the nation for physical
sciences (Nature).
- Atmospheric Research—The university’s
renowned research on hurricanes and pollution earned membership
in the prestigious University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
- Education Research—The College of Education
is among the top three in the nation in preparing teachers to
utilize new technology.
(Technology & Learning Magazine)
- SERCC—The new Science and Engineering
Research and Classroom Complex will help place UH at the forefront
of next-generation of research, including nanotechnology, with
a static- and vibration-free “clean room.”
Students and Athletics
- Most Diverse—UH is the most ethnically
diverse major research university in the nation.
- Student Service—UH students work more
than 920,000 hours in the surrounding community each year through
internships and other course-related programs.
- National Merit Finalists—UH currently
enrolls 72 National Merit Finalists
- Olympics—77 UH athletes and coaches
have participated, earning 33 medals
- Track and Field—Men’s and women’s
teams swept the 2005 Conference USA Championships; and the C-USA
All-Decade Team includes Coach Leroy Burrell and five of the ten
team members are Cougars.
- Women’s Basketball—Earned a berth
in the NCAA championships in 2004 and 2005; team stars Chandi
Jones and Sancho Lyttle went on to the WNBA.
- Diving—Women’s swimming and diving
has been ranked in the top 25 for five years in a row; sophomore
Anna Kiess finished second nationwide in the 2005 NCAA Championships
and earned NCAA All-America honors
Community
- Disaster Relief—Following Hurricane Katrina,
UH admitted more than 1,600 Louisiana students, hosted Loyola
University’s administration and law school, provided vision
care for 2,800 evacuees in Houston shelters; and, following the
Indian Ocean Tsunami, designed new shelters for survivors in Thailand.
- Summer Camps—UH offers 184 programs
for children each summer, ranging from science and engineering
to theater.
- Design / Build Studio—Each year, this
College of Architecture Studio builds, from concept to completion,
a new facility for local non-profits such as schools and Little
League teams.
- Vision Care—Through the University Eye
Institute and off-campus clinics such as the Good Neighbor Clinic,
the College of Optometry serves 30,000 patients each year.
- Public School Partnerships—UH faculty
and colleges support more than 200 outreach projects in the public
schools, including the Houston Teacher’s Institute, which
helps refresh HISD teachers with new ideas and teaching techniques
that have reached more than 40,000 students since 1999.
- The Arts—The Moores School of Music
serves 129,000 people per year in 297 events; the School of Theatre
plays to more than 8,000; and the Blaffer Gallery, the Museum
of the University of Houston, hosts 20,000 visitors.
Alumni
- CEOs—More than 3,500 of our alumni
are head their own company or are presidents or chief executives
of businesses or corporations.
- Powerful Alumni—Among our more than
160,000 alumni are the U.S. Secretary of Education, congressmen
and legislators, the CEO of Sears, the CEO of Dynegy, the CEO
of Neiman Marcus, astronauts, judges, educators, actors and artists,
and many more.
- Texas Legislature—UH has the second-most
alumni in the Texas State Legislature.
- Cougars in the Limelight—Our long history
of successful alumni in the arts includes actors Dennis and Randy
Quaid, Brent Spiner, Loretta Devine, and Robert Wahl; novelist
Alice Sebold and Padgett Powell; singer Larry Gatlin; artists
Julian Schnabel, Michael Ray Charles, “The
Art Guys”—Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing; broadcasters
Jim Nantz, Tom Jarriel, Dominique Sachse; as well as Motion
Picture Association president Jack Valenti; clothing designer
Victor Costa; and film director Walter Coblenz.
- World-class Athletes—Cougar athletic
stars include Olympic medalists Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell;
Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware; NBA stars Clyde Drexler and
Hakeem Olajuwon; golfers Fred Couples, Steve Elkington and Fuzzy
Zoeller; and MLB pitchers Doug Drabek, Ryan Wagner and Woody
Williams.
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