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Houston Community College (HCC), also known as Houston Community College System (HCCS), is a community college system that operates community colleges in Houston, Missouri City, Greater Katy, and Stafford in Texas. It is notable for actively recruiting internationally and for the large number of international students enrolled, over 5,700 in 2015.
In 1958, the College of Agriculture was formed as the first research oriented, degree granting institution at UCR. The most popular majors are Biological Chemistry (747 undergraduates), Biology (801.5 undergraduates) and an interdepartmental Biological Sciences program (1,206.5 undergraduates). [ 4 ]
The Houston Community College System Foundation was founded in 1976 to provide scholarships to Houston Community College students and to support the college's efforts to attract and educate Houston-area students—including many non-traditional students and those facing barriers to higher education.
The students voted for a fee increase to move UCR athletics into NCAA Division I standing in 1998. [32] In the 1990s, proposals were made to establish a law school, a medical school, and a school of public policy at UCR, with the UCR School of Medicine and the School of Public Policy becoming reality in 2012. [ 33 ]
(During a consolidation period in the early 1970s, its natural science departments merged with UCR's College of Agriculture, founded in 1958, to form the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.) It is today a vibrant and critical research and teaching oriented community. [1]
Northeast College is a community college based in Houston, Texas. Part of the Houston Community College System , it serves the Northeast and Northern portions of the city. Northeast College consists of three satellite campuses: Northeast Campus, Northline Campus and Pinemont Center.
The history of the University of California, Riverside, or UCR, started in 1907 when UCR was the University's Citrus Experiment Station.By the 1950s, the University had established a teaching-focused liberal arts curriculum at the site, in the spirit of a small liberal arts college, but California's rapidly growing population made it necessary for the Riverside campus to become a full-fledged ...
Rice University. Nonsectarian. Rice University, established in 1912, is a private Tier One research university located at 6100 Main, Houston, Texas. [12] [13] Rice enrolled 3,001 undergraduate, 897 post-graduate, and 1,247 doctoral students and awarded 1,448 degrees in 2007.