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Education
- Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest school system in Texas and the seventh in the nation.
- HISD operates 302 campuses and educational programs within 301-square-miles.
- The district employs approximately 30,000 full- and part-time professional and support personnel, making it the largest employer in the Houston metropolitan area.
- Famous Houston alumni include:
Barbara Jordan – Wheatly High
Dan Rather – Reagan High
Dennis and Randy Quaid – Bellaire High
Lyle Lovett – Klein High
Jaclyn Smith - Lamar High
Michael Dell – Memorial High School
Tommy Tune - Lamar High
Walter Cronkite – San Jacinto High
- The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (an HISD magnet program) was the first high school in the nation to correlate an academic program with concentrated training in the arts. Famous HSPVA alumni include Beyonce Knowles and Lisa Hartman Black.
Sources: Greater Houston Partnership; High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Higher Education
More than 300,000 students are enrolled in more than 500 degree and certification programs at 100-plus universities, community colleges, technical and trade schools.
The Greater Houston area has 14 major institutions of higher learning.
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the nation’s No. 13 medical school
- Houston Baptist University
- 55 percent of HBU’s classes have fewer than 20 students
- Houston Community College System
- HCC, the largest community college system on the Texas Gulf Coast, is comprised of five regional colleges.
- Prairie View A&M University
- Second oldest institution of higher education in Texas
- Rice University
- Named the most productive research university in Texas by Academic Analytics (2007)
- The Princeton Review, Newsweek College Guide, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Worth magazine, Financial Times, U.S. News and World Report and the Almanac of Architecture and Design all rank Rice as a top institution in the country. Rice was included on a recent list in Newsweek magazine of the "new" Ivy League schools.
- Sam Houston State University
- Diverse student body with students from 46 countries
- San Jacinto College District
- Offers more than 140 degrees and certificates
- South Texas College of Law
- Ranked No. 1 by U.S. News and World Report in teaching trial advocacy
- Texas Southern University
- One of the leading producers of African-American scholars that obtain collegiate, professional and graduate degrees in the nation
- University of Houston
- More than 50 Olympic athletes have attended UH that brought home 33 medals (19 gold)
- Home of the globally recognized Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
- University of Houston – Clear Lake
- More than 7,700 students enrolled each semester, with nearly half of those students enrolled in graduate study
- University of Houston – Downtown
- Offers nearly 40 degree programs, including four graduate programs
- University of St. Thomas
- Catholic institution with nearly 4,000 students
- University of Texas Health Science Center
- Located in the world renowned Texas Medical Center, UTHSC brings together the 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
Nobel Prize Recipients
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996
Awarded for: Discovery of Fullerenes
Robert F. Curl Jr Richard E. Smalley
Rice University Rice University
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998
Ferid Murad
Affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology, Pharmacology and Physiology,
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
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