The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Public · TX

School data & stats

TypePublic

LocationTX · South

SettingUrban

Undergrads465

Student:faculty5:1

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Community

Racial diversity79.8%

Gender diversity84.1%

International0.7%

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Overview

UTHealth Houston is the University of Texas System's health science center in the Texas Medical Center, primarily a graduate and professional institution spanning medicine, public health, dentistry, nursing, and biomedical sciences. Undergraduate enrollment is limited to a small number of clinical degree-completion programs, making it a fit mainly for students already set on a specific health career rather than a traditional four-year college search.

Academics

Undergraduate offerings concentrate in nursing and a few allied health fields, often structured as degree-completion tracks for students who bring in credit from community college or another institution. The defining academic asset is location: students train alongside graduate and medical students inside the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, with direct access to its hospitals and research institutions.

Getting in

Because programs are clinically focused and often built for transfer or degree-completion students, admission review looks closely at prior coursework and readiness for a specific health program rather than a broad liberal-arts application profile.

After graduation

Graduates move directly into clinical practice in nursing and allied health fields, often within the Texas Medical Center's own hospital systems, giving the small undergraduate population an unusually direct pipeline into major Houston health employers.

Worth knowing

This is not a conventional undergraduate campus experience — there is limited traditional student life infrastructure, and the institution is built around clinical training rather than dorms, quads, or undergraduate-focused programming.

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Admissions

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Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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