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Philip G. Hoffman, first chancellor of UH System. The University of Houston, founded in 1927, entered the state system of higher education in 1963. The evolvement of a multi-institution University of Houston System came from a recommendation in May 1968 which called for the creation of a university near NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center to offer upper-division and graduate-level programs. [11]
The Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin (left), Lovett Hall at Rice University (middle), and the Academic Building at Texas A&M University (right) There are 226 colleges and universities in the State of Texas that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education .
Houston Christian University, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, Texas, offers more than 50 undergraduate majors. Pre-professional programs range from Biblical languages to nursing. [22] University of St. Thomas, located at 3800 Montrose, Houston, Texas, is a comprehensive Catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts.
The University of Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ; HEW-stən) is a public research university in Houston, Texas, United States.It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, a coeducational institution and one of multiple junior colleges formed in the first decades of the 20th century.
The University of Houston–Downtown (UHD) is a public university in Houston, Texas. Established in 1974 as University of Houston–Downtown College ( UH–DC ), it has a campus that spans 40 acres (0.16 km 2 ) in Downtown Houston with a satellite location, UHD–Northwest, inside Lone Star College–University Park .
The University of Houston System Board of Regents voted to establish a medical school at the system's flagship campus in 2017. [1] The Texas Legislature authorized the medical school in 2019. [2] The UH College of Medicine enrolled its inaugural class of 30 students in 2020. All students in the inaugural class received full tuition scholarships ...
The University of Houston at Clear Lake City was renamed University of Houston–Clear Lake on April 26, 1983. [14] During the 73rd Texas Legislature in 1993, an unsuccessful attempt was made by the City of Pasadena to change the institution's name to the University of Houston at Pasadena. [15] [16]