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Montgomery County Public and Private Universities
The Houston area has an abundant number or choices for those seeking higher education. Here are just a few of the schools available in the area (in no particular order!)
Lone Star College System - Serving Harris and Montgomery counties of Texas, the Lone Star College System achieved an enrollment of over 85,000 in 2010. Among the largest and fastest growing community college districts in Texas, the Lone Star College System has five different colleges and seven satellite centers. Campuses include Lone Star College - Montgomery, Tomball, Cy-Fair, Kingwood, and North Harris.
The Montgomery location of Lone Star College offers more than 40 career programs as well as academic transfer courses in a variety of subjects. There are also corporate and continuing education divisions that provide workforce training and re-training to local businesses and individuals. In the summer, Lone Star College - Montgomery offers youth camps and year-round there is a learning organization for active, older adults called The Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL). On the same campus, Lone Star College - Montgomery offers Bachelor's and Master's degrees from six area universities in more than 60 different majors.
Lone Star College - Montgomery
3200 College Park Dr. Conroe TX 77384
936 273-7000
http://montgomery.lonestar.edu/
Lone Star College - Tomball
30555 Tomball Pkwy, Tomball TX 77375
281 351-3300
http://tomball.lonestar.edu/
Lone Star College - Cy-Fair
9191 Barker Cypress Rd., Cypress TX 77433
281 290-3200
http://cyfair.lonestar.edu/
Texas A & M - Boasting a 5000 acre university located in College Station, Texas, this school is less than an hour long drive from Magnolia Texas. Founded in 1876, Texas A & M University was Texas first public institution of higher learning. Today the school has over 46,000 students, a nationally recognized faculty and two branch campuses, one in Galveston Texas and the second in the country of Qatar. Many of the degree programs are ranked among the top 10 in the United States.
Also, located on the College Station Campus of TAMU, you will find the beautiful presidential library and museum of George H.W. Bush. The library operates under the administration of the National Archives and Records Administration under the provisions of the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955.
The George H. W. Bush Library and Museum recently completed an $8.3M renovation to the main exhibit on the life of George Bush and now features state-of-the-are audio guides featuring the voices of former President Bush, Barbara Bush and their Daughter Doro Bush Koch.
Texas A & M University George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
College Station, TX. 77843 1000 George Bush Drive West
979 845-3211 College Station, TX. 77845
http://www.tamu.edu/ 979 691-4000
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
Sam Houston State University - Located in one of Texas' oldest cities, Huntsville Texas, you'll find the home of the Bearkats! Named for Texas' Greatest Hero, General Sam Houston, SHSU has an enrollment of over 16,000 and offers 79 undergraduate degree programs, 52 masters programs and 5 doctoral programs in various studies.
Huntsville Texas is became the home of General Sam Houston, the 1st and 3rd president of the Republic of Texas and later becoming the Governor of the great state of Texas. Upon visiting Huntsville and located on Interstate 45, you will see a 66 ft. statue which is the tallest statue in the world of an American hero.
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville TX. 77341-2418
936 294-1111 or 1-866-BEARKAT
http://www.shsu.edu/
University of Houston - Founded in 1927, this beautiful 550 acre campus is located in the energy capital of the world, Houston Texas. Currently 35,000 students have available to them, more than 100 undergraduate majors and minors and almost 200 graduate degree programs. The University of Houston Alumni hold leadership positions in Washington D.C., major corporations and have walked in space as an Astronaut.
Over the past few years, U of H has made more than $200 million in campus improvements and offers leading-edge facilities such as a new complex for science and engineering research. The campus Recreation and Wellness Center has an indoor and outdoor pool with a 53 foot high climbing wall.
Houston Texas is one of the largest cities in the United States and is home to world leaders such as George H. W. Bush and entertainers like Clint and Lisa Black, Beyonce Knowles, Hillary Duff and boxer George Foreman. Also located in Houston Texas is the worlds largest medical center, known as Texas Medical Center. This complex includes 13 renowned hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy and virtually all health-related careers.
The University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Road, Houston,
Texas 77004
713 743-2255
http://www.uh.edu/
Texas Southern University - Located near downtown Houston Texas, TSU is one of two Historically Black colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the world and one of only two, four-year colleges in Texas with an open enrollment policy, accepting all eligible students with a high school diploma or GED equivalent.
With more than 9000 students, faculty and staff, Texas Southern University offers health profession programs in pharmacy and health sciences. The university has also increased the number of students receiving Bachelor degrees in science, mathematics, engineering and technology due to its participation in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Preparation Program (LSAMP) TSU's community is very diverse. Although most of the students are native Texans, you'll find an international student body from all over the world. The alumni includes state representatives and local prominent attorneys that graduated from the university's Thurgood Marshall School of Law. The university has also produced acclaimed vocalists, musicians, and artists. Forty-percent of the teachers in Houston ISD graduated from Texas Southern University.
Texas Southern University
3100 Cleburne Street
Houston, TX 77004
Phone: 713-313-7011
http://www.tsu.edu/
University of Texas Health Science Center - The University of Texas Health Science Center was created by the UT Board of Regents in 1972 and supported by the Texas State Legislature. Located in the worlds largest medical center, UTHSC offers a Dental Branch, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Medical School, the School of Public Health, the School of Nursing, the School of Health Information Sciences, the UT Harris County Psychiatric Center and the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases.
The university offers 12 graduate degrees, 2 professional - MD, DDS, 2 bachelor, 6 Coordinating Board approved certificates programs, 10 joint/dual degree programs and nearly 100 clinical training sites. The primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann Hospital, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, UT Harris County Psychiatric Center , St. Luke's/Texas Heart Institute and UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
University achievements include Nobel Prize Recipients, 19 Medical School faculty members ranked among America's Top Docs, and the School of Nursing ranked in top 5% of nursing school. The University of Texas Health Science Center has also received over 200 NIH grants, ranking the school 60th out of 535 in NIH funding of Domestic Institutions of Higher Education.
University of Texas Health Science Center
7000 Fannin St.
Houston, TX. 77030
http://www.uthouston.edu/
Rice University - May 13, 1891, William Marsh Rice chartered the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art. Today Rice University is considered one of the premier universities with approximately 3000 undergraduate students there is a student-to-teacher ratio of 5:1 with the median class size of 15.
In 2007, Rice University was named the most productive research university in Texas Academic Analytics and also ranked as a top institution in the country by various print magazines including U.S. News and World Report.
The Rice University campus has eight academic schools and nine residential colleges. Across the street from the university is Hermann Park which includes the zoo, and the Miller Outdoor Theatre. Just a half mile away is the Houston Museum District. Also nearby the campus is Rice Village where you will find restaurants and nightlife plus places to shop.
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005-1827
713-348-0000
http://www.rice.edu/
