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University of Houston

Basic Information

Type Public
Geographical Reach Regional
Location Houston, TX
Population 5,500,000
Website http://www.uh.edu/
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Demographics

Total Undergraduates 37,175
Men / Women 48% / 52%
Hispanic 35%
Asian 21%
White 18%
Black 12%
International 5%
Mixed 3%
Native American 0%
From State 93%
From Region 0%

Academics

Undergraduate Degrees
Business & Economics 32%
Humanities & Social Sciences 22%
Computer Science 10%
Health Sciences 10%
Life & Natural Sciences 8%
Engineering 7%
Arts 6%
Professional 3%
Physical Sciences & Math 2%

Financial

In-State Tuition & Fees $9,717
Out-of-State Tuition & Fees $22,547
Est. In-State Cost $12,570
Est. Out-of-State Cost $29,167
10-Year ROI $222,000
ROI Percentile 88th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 87%
4-Year Graduation Rate 43%
6-Year Graduation Rate 65%
Transfer-Out Rate 6%

Weather

Comfortable Days 75 (8% 🥵) muggy
Sunshine Hours 2,578 (48%)
Days Without Precipitation 260 (78%)

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes
Acceptance Rate 66%
Yield (Unbound) 25%
Early Action Nov 1
Regular Decision Jan 1

Research

Research Level R1
Expenditure
Humanities & Social Sciences $24M #62
Engineering, Computing & Math $88M #72
Life & Natural Sciences $87M #122
Graduate Degrees
Humanities & Social Sciences 424 #35
Engineering, Computing & Math 113 #48
Life & Natural Sciences 318 #79

Honors College

Name The Honors College
Students 2,000 (5%)

Standardized Tests

Test Scores

Test Policy optional
Submitted Test Scores 59%
SAT Range 1190 – 1310
SAT Math Range 570 – 670
SAT RW Range 590 – 670
ACT Range 23 – 29

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Schools & Majors

⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
C.T. Bauer College of Business 2,125 50% / 50% 4% $75,192 93%
Accounting 275 +21 45% / 55% 8% $71,752 84 95%
Business Analytics 108 — 73% / 27% 5% $79,801 90 —
Business Communications 2 — 0% / 100% 0% $64,149 76 90%
Entrepreneurship 21 +20 43% / 57% 14% $76,490 88 94%
Finance 381 +39 65% / 35% 3% $80,588 91 90%
Human Resource Development 74 +1 18% / 82% 1% $63,301 74 96%
Management 260 +37 45% / 55% 2% $74,757 87 94%
Management Information Systems 354 +35 59% / 41% 5% $84,336 93 94%
Marketing 373 +80 36% / 64% 3% $65,181 77 90%
Organizational Leadership 42 — 60% / 40% 2% $74,757 87 94%
Professional Selling 1 — 100% / 0% 0% $74,478 87 93%
Supply Chain Management 234 +8 47% / 53% 5% $74,757 87 94%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Architecture and Design 131 40% / 60% 4% $66,876 95%
Environmental Design 3 — 67% / 33% 33% $55,921 61 —
Architecture 106 — 45% / 55% 3% $67,721 80 95%
Interior Architecture 22 — 14% / 86% 5% $64,303 76 —
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Education 366 49% / 51% 2% $57,412 93%
Kinesiology 306 +1 43% / 57% 2% $57,412 64 93%
Sport Management 60 +1 80% / 20% 5% $57,412 64 93%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences 2,926 28% / 72% 2% $57,394 91%
Biochemistry 74 — 47% / 53% 5% $60,121 69 92%
Biology 342 +3 32% / 68% 3% $62,349 73 93%
Biomedical Sciences 9 — 22% / 78% 0% $62,349 73 93%
Biotechnology 84 +1 44% / 56% 2% $81,038 91 85%
Environmental Science 24 — 33% / 67% 4% $53,737 56 89%
Human Nutrition 134 — 23% / 77% 4% $55,177 59 89%
American Sign Language 8 — 0% / 100% 0% $56,794 63 —
Communication Sciences and Disorders 80 — 8% / 92% 0% $56,838 63 94%
Health and Wellness 302 +1 18% / 82% 1% $54,841 58 90%
Consumer Science 46 — 43% / 57% 0% $57,782 65 91%
Economics 124 +5 69% / 31% 10% $74,425 87 88%
African American Studies 2 — 50% / 50% 0% $54,626 58 —
Anthropology 31 +3 35% / 65% 6% $55,286 59 90%
Chinese Studies 6 +2 33% / 67% 0% $54,633 58 —
English 108 +3 33% / 67% 4% $51,077 49 90%
Ethnic Studies 6 — 0% / 100% 0% $54,111 57 —
Foreign Languages 9 +1 33% / 67% 0% $56,037 61 —
French 1 +1 0% / 100% 0% $56,653 62 93%
Hispanic Studies 1 — 0% / 100% 0% $54,632 58 —
History 71 +3 49% / 51% 0% $54,902 59 94%
Human Development and Family Studies 83 +1 7% / 93% 0% $47,975 40 93%
Interdisciplinary Studies 80 — 68% / 32% 2% $55,976 61 —
Interdisciplinary Studies 229 — 10% / 90% 1% $58,563 66 94%
Liberal Studies 34 — 29% / 71% 0% $52,064 51 92%
Philosophy 29 +3 38% / 62% 10% $54,758 58 90%
Political Science 197 +5 41% / 59% 4% $61,848 72 91%
Psychology 718 +8 20% / 80% 1% $52,111 51 90%
Public Policy Analysis 4 — 50% / 50% 0% $60,504 70 —
Religion/Religious Studies — +1 — — $53,325 55 —
Sociology 69 +4 25% / 75% 0% $56,477 62 99%
Spanish 21 +6 14% / 86% 0% $56,653 62 93%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics 940 71% / 29% 6% $89,818 93%
Computer Graphics 107 — 49% / 51% 3% $55,397 60 91%
Computer Information Systems 265 — 76% / 24% 5% $87,354 94 94%
Computer Science 430 +5 78% / 22% 7% $105,956 99 94%
Chemistry 23 — 48% / 52% 0% $74,603 87 93%
Geophysics 6 — 50% / 50% 0% $71,224 84 90%
Geosciences 23 — 43% / 57% 0% $71,224 84 90%
Mathematical Biology 5 — 0% / 100% 0% $84,768 93 —
Mathematics 64 +1 66% / 34% 9% $64,880 77 90%
Physics 17 +1 76% / 24% 6% $84,356 93 89%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Nursing 84 21% / 79% 1% $90,501 97%
Nursing 84 — 21% / 79% 1% $90,501 96 97%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership 154 39% / 61% 9% $51,879 94%
Hospitality Management 154 — 39% / 61% 9% $51,879 51 94%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Cullen College of Engineering 831 77% / 23% 5% $93,808 97%
Biomedical Engineering 52 — 50% / 50% 12% $80,209 91 89%
Chemical Engineering 78 — 67% / 33% 10% $99,077 98 97%
Civil Engineering 71 — 69% / 31% 8% $91,240 96 95%
Computer Engineering 45 — 87% / 13% 7% $105,137 98 97%
Electrical Engineering 70 — 73% / 27% 4% $107,025 99 97%
Industrial Engineering 30 — 60% / 40% 0% $100,544 98 92%
Mechanical Engineering 190 — 79% / 21% 5% $96,269 97 98%
Petroleum Engineering 13 — 62% / 38% 15% $88,652 95 98%
Computer Engineering Technology 42 — 86% / 14% 2% $71,648 84 98%
Construction Engineering Technology 143 — 86% / 14% 1% $94,660 97 98%
Electrical Engineering Technology 31 — 90% / 10% 3% $92,134 96 100%
Mechanical Engineering Technology 66 — 88% / 12% 5% $83,231 92 98%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Jack J. Valenti School of Communication 321 32% / 68% 2% $53,282 93%
Advertising 5 — 60% / 40% 0% $57,785 65 95%
Advertising and Public Relations 112 +2 23% / 77% 1% $57,785 65 95%
Communication 32 — 28% / 72% 6% $60,207 69 94%
Communication 1 — 0% / 100% 0% $60,207 69 94%
Health Communication 15 — 7% / 93% 0% $57,785 65 95%
Journalism 53 — 26% / 74% 2% $49,505 44 94%
Mass Communication 1 — 0% / 100% 0% $60,207 69 94%
Public Relations 3 — 33% / 67% 0% $57,785 65 95%
Radio, Television, and Film 99 — 49% / 51% 3% $46,787 36 88%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts 246 35% / 65% 2% $50,485 93%
Art 49 — 14% / 86% 2% $44,142 28 90%
Art History 10 — 10% / 90% 0% $44,142 28 90%
Dance 10 — 0% / 100% 0% $40,277 18 —
Graphic Design 23 — 26% / 74% 9% $64,210 76 97%
Industrial Design 18 — 61% / 39% 6% $64,210 76 97%
Music 44 — 59% / 41% 0% $58,649 66 100%
Music Performance 21 +3 43% / 57% 5% $58,649 66 100%
Painting 24 — 29% / 71% 0% $44,142 28 90%
Photography 12 — 58% / 42% 0% $36,529 11 91%
Sculpture 7 — 14% / 86% 0% $44,142 28 90%
Theatre 28 — 39% / 61% 4% $41,455 21 84%

Rankings

My Tribe

Little Meca Most Muslim
Active Community

Engineering

It's Not About Molecules, It's About Pipes Chemical Engineering
Dinosaur Juice
Playing House Civil Engineering
The Deep Bench
Drill, Baby, Drill Energy & Mining Engineering
Black Gold Elite
Hugging Trees with Calculus Environmental Engineering
Carbon Crushers
Is It a Solid? Is It a Liquid? Yes. Materials Engineering
Polymer Players
WD-40 & Duct Tape Mechanical Engineering & Robotics
The Kinetic Energy Cartel

Physical Sciences & Math

Breaking Bad Chemistry
Industry Pipeline & Analytical Automatons
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Sigma Grindset

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
The Control Group

Business & Economics

PowerPoint Presentation Power Rankings Business Administration
Regional Boardroom Rulers
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
Urban Economists & Regional Anchors
Move Fast, Break Tuition Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Side Hustle Squad
May I Take Your Order? Hospitality & Tourism
The Gold Standard
Ballers, Shot Callers & Hollywood Hustlers Sports & Entertainment Business
Currently Fetching Coffee

Humanities & Social Sciences

Model UN Generation Government & Politics
Grassroots
I'll Figure Out the Career Later Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary
Generalist Geniuses
I Want To Understand Myself Psychology
Corporate Compliance Consultants

Professional

The "Actually Knowing How to Build It" Crew Manufacturing
Applied Science All-Stars