The Best Colleges in Houston

Rice University

• Rice University is a nationally ranked institution. Among all Houston colleges, Rice is considered to be the most academically rigorous. "U.S. News & World Report" ranked Rice No. 17 among all colleges nationwide. Rice serves about 3,300 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students. With an undergraduate student-instructor ratio of 5-1, Rice offers students the opportunity for a more personal education experience. The school consists of seven major academic divisions: architecture, engineering, humanities, business, music, natural sciences and social sciences. The college also contains a school of continuing studies.

  Rice University
  P.O. Box 1892
  Houston, TX 77251
  713-348-7423
  rice.edu

University of Houston

• The University of Houston is another nationally recognized college. "U.S. News" ranked the program as a fourth-tier institution nationwide. The University of Houston serves over 36,000 students yearly. The school offers over 100 undergraduate majors and over 100 graduate programs of study. UH business students have the opportunity to pursue their master's of business administration degree entirely online. UH is a leading research institution with over 40 different research centers in nearly every academic discipline.

  University of Houston
  212 E. Cullen Building
  Houston, TX 77204
  713-743-1010
  uh.edu

Texas Southern University

• Texas Southern University is a third option for Houston area students. TSU is one of the nation's largest historically black educational institutions. The college enrolls over 9,500 students annually in a variety of disciplines. Leading academic disciplines include the law program, which has been nationally recognized for its diversity, and the pharmacy program, which has played a key role in educating a large portion of the nation's African-American pharmacists. Texas Southern's law school was ranked as a second-tier law school by lawschool100.com, and webometrics rated the entire university in the top 30 percent of the world's top 8,000 universities. TSU consists of 10 major academic divisions or schools: liberal arts and behavioral sciences, education, business, graduate studies, continuing education, law, pharmacy and health sciences, science and technology, public affairs and communication.

  Texas Southern University
  3100 Cleburne Street
  Houston, TX 77004
  713-313-7011
  tsu.edu