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Last Updated: 03/14/2010
Houston Universities And Schools
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The Art Institute of Houston - http://www.artinstitutes.edu/houston/
The Art Institute of Houston – is one of The Art Institutes, a system of more than 40 educational institutions located throughout North America, providing education in design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts. Founded in 1965 as the Houston School of Commercial Art, the school joined The Art Institutes system of schools in 1978 and moved to its current facility in 1990
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DeVry University of Houston - DeVry University of Houston
DeVry University offers courses in business administration, computer information systems, engineering, communication, bioinformatics , and management. DeVry also offers professional graduate certificates in business, office management and health information technology. The university operates on a trimester course schedule and, if taken full-time year round, a student can graduate with a Bachelor's degree in about three years (depending on the program). Most degree programs are offered at both the Associate's and four-year Bachelor's level. In addition, the institution offers various certificate programs such as for specific subfields in Information technology. |
Houston Baptist University - http://www.hbu.edu/ - Go Huskies!!!
HBU has been ranked in the top tier among the "Best Universities" offering master's degrees in the Western region by U.S.News & World Report (http://www.hbu.edu/Pages/best/) More than 50 undergraduate majors are offered and pre-professional programs range from Biblical Languages to Nursing. A streamlined double major program combines two areas of study, and is generally a requirement for the undergraduate college. All classes are faculty-taught and more than half the classes have fewer than 20 students. HBU has traditionally been on a quarter system but it will transition to semesters starting Fall 2008. |
Houston Community College System (HCC) - http://www.hccs.edu/ - Go Eagles!!!
HCCS once was an umbrella under the wing of the Houston Independent School District, starting in 1971 (when HCC was established) - HCCS once used HISD school campuses for teaching facilities with classes during evenings and weekends. Around 1997 HCCS began to transfer operations to community college district-operated campuses throughout the HCCS service area. |
Lone Star College System - http://www.lonestar.edu/
Lone Star College System (LSCS) is a publicly funded, two-year, United States community college system serving the northern portions of the Greater Houston, Texas, area. With 49,250 students, it is the largest college system in the Houston area, and third largest community college district in Texas. |
Rice University - http://www.rice.edu/ - Go Owls!!!
William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research university located in Houston, Texas, United States, near the Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is noted for its strength in the applied sciences and its elite undergraduate division. The university has been a pioneer in the fields of nanotechnology,[1] artificial heart research, structural chemical analysis, and space science. |
San Jacinto College - http://www.sanjac.edu/
San Jacinto College is a community college system in the Greater Houston area in the U.S. state of Texas. Its administration office is located in its central campus in Pasadena. Established in 1961, the district originally consisted of the areas of Channelview ISD, Deer Park ISD, Galena Park ISD, La Porte ISD, and Pasadena ISD. The district now also serves Sheldon ISD. Some facilities are also located within the boundaries of Clear Creek ISD. |
Texas Southern University - http://www.tsu.edu/ - Go Tigers!!!
Texas Southern University is one of the largest historically black universities in the United States. Located in Houston, Texas, the university was established on March 3, 1947 by the Texas Legislature and it was initially named Texas State University for African Americans. Prior to becoming a state university, Texas Southern University was owned by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and had been known as Houston College for African Americans. |
Texas Woman's University - http://www.twu.edu/ - Go Pioneers!!!
Texas Woman's University (historically the College of Industrial Arts and Texas State College for Women) is a university in Denton, Texas with two health science center branches in Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas. In addition to being the largest state-supported university for women in the United States, TWU’s College of Nursing is the largest in Texas and the fifth-largest in the U.S. TWU’s nursing doctoral program is the largest in the country. |
University of Houston - http://www.uh.edu/ - Go Cougars!!!! Go "Coogs"!!!
The University of Houston System is the fourth-largest university system in the U.S. state of Texas. With more than 56,000 students and 4,000 faculties total from four universities, it is the largest metropolitan public system of higher education in Texas. As of 1997, the University of Houston System administration is located in the Ezekiel W. Cullen building on the University of Houston campus. |
Our Lady of the Lake University - http://www.ollusa.edu/
Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational institution of higher education located in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1895 by the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence, a religious order originating in Lorraine, France, during the 18th century. The Texas chapter of the order is still the sponsoring organization of the university. As part of its mission to provide education to those with limited access, the University introduced the Weekend College concept at the San Antonio campus in 1978. OLLU began offering "weekend degree" programs in Houston in 1986. |
University of Phoenix - http://www.phoenix.edu/
The University of Phoenix (UPX) is a for-profit educational institution that specializes in adult education. The largest private university in North America, UPX has an enrollment of more than 345,300 students. The school was founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling and is owned by the Apollo Group, Inc. The university has more than 200 campuses offering more than 100 degree programs at the associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels in various fields of study. |
University of St. Thomas (Texas) - http://www.stthom.edu/
The University of St. Thomas (also referred to as UST or St. Thomas) in 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. |
Universal Technical Institute - http://www.uti.edu/
Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (UTI), is a nationwide provider of technical education training for students seeking careers as professional automotive, diesel, collision repair, motorcycle and marine technicians. Through a campus-based school system, Universal Technical Institute, Inc. offers specialized technical education programs under the banner of several well-known brands, including Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Motorcycle Mechanics Institute and Marine Mechanics Institute (MMI) and NASCAR Technical Institute (NTI). |
Westwood College of Technology - http://www.westwood.edu/
Westwood College is a for-profit, technical school, which offers degree programs in business, criminal justice, gaming, fashion, computers & information technology, and design as well as degree, diploma, and certificate programs in health care, industrial services, and aviation maintenance. |
Houston Law Schools
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University of Houston Law Center - http://www.law.uh.edu/
The University of Houston Law Center (colloquially, The Law Center) is a professional graduate school at the University of Houston. It is a public American Bar Association accredited law school awarding Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) and Master of Laws (L.L.M.) degrees. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of three accredited law schools located in the city of Houston. |
Thurgood Marshall School of Law - http://www.tsulaw.edu/
The Thurgood Marshall School of Law is an ABA accredited law school in Houston, Texas, that awards J.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence). It is part of Texas Southern University. |
South Texas College of Law - http://www.stcl.edu/
South Texas College of Law is a private American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Located in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States it was founded in 1923—the oldest law school in Houston and the third-oldest in Texas.12 South Texas is well known for its moot court and mock trial trial advocacy program. |
Medical Schools
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Baylor College of Medicine - http://www.bcm.edu/
Baylor College of Medicine, located in Houston, Texas, USA, is one of the world's leading centers for biomedical research and clinical care. Situated within the Texas Medical Center, a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) complex that is home to 46 member institutions and is the largest medical center in the world, Baylor College of Medicine has affiliations with eight teaching hospitals, including the world-renowned Texas Children's Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Menninger Clinic and Texas Heart Institute. It has been consistently rated the top medical school in the greater Southwest and is widely regarded as one of the top medical schools in the country, ranked 7th overall in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report top medical schools for primary care and 13th for research. Its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is also highly rated. BCM, despite being solely focused on medical and graduate education, has become one of 63 American colleges with an endowment greater than $1 billion. |
University of Houston College of Pharmacy - http://pharmacy.uh.edu/
Providing a comprehensive pharmacy education to a diverse student population that prepares them to improve patient outcomes. Our location, on both the University of Houston main campus and in the heart of the Texas Medical Center (TMC), provides us the best of both worlds. Students enjoy the community feeling of the University of Houston and at the same time are part of the vibrant environment of the world’s largest medical center. Opportunities exist for interaction with students, faculty and practitioners from other renowned TMC institutions. |
Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology - http://www.ibt.tamhsc.edu/
The Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT), a component of the Texas A&M Health Science Center represents the Texas A&M University System, one of the two main Texas state university systems, in the state's and world's largest medical center, the Texas Medical Center, in Houston, Texas. The institute focuses on interdisciplinary collaborative programs and themes of the traditional land-grant university system with frontier biomedical and human health sciences. |
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - Thttp://www.uthouston.edu/
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston was created by the UT System Board of Regents and supported by the Texas Legislature in 1972. Located in the world renowned Texas Medical Center, the school is primarily a graduate education university focusing on the health sciences. The UTHSC-H School of Public Health ranked #1 in doctoral health education in 2004. |
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - http://mdanderson.org/
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is one of the nation's original three comprehensive cancer centers established by the National Cancer Act of 1971. It is both a degree-granting academic institution and a system of hospitals located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. M. D. Anderson was created by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1941, making it a component of The University of Texas System. Today it is one of 39 Comprehensive Cancer Centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. The cancer center sees more than 84,000 patients per year and employs more than 17,000 people. For four of the past five years, M. D. Anderson has ranked No. 1 in cancer care in the "America's Best Hospitals" survey published in U.S. News & World Report. A healthy rivalry exists between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and M. D. Anderson. |
University of Texas Medical Branch - http://www.utmb.edu/
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a component of the University of Texas System located in Galveston, Texas, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of downtown Houston. It is a health care complex spanning 85 acres (344,000 m²), with seven hospitals, 13,000 employees and an assortment of specialized clinics, centers and institutes, including a medical school. The medical school is the oldest one west of the Mississippi River. It was established in 1891 with one building and fewer than 50 students. Today UTMB's campus has grown to more than 70 buildings and an enrollment of more than 2,500 students. The 84-acre campus includes four schools, three institutes for advanced study, a major medical library, seven hospitals (including an affiliated Shriners Burns Hospital), a network of clinics that provide a full range of primary and specialized medical care, and numerous research facilities. |
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