Nationally Recognized Programs

• The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship—second in the nation (Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review).
• UH Law Center—top 100 law schools in the country (U.S.News & World Report).
• Health Law—third in the nation (U.S. News & World Report).
• Intellectual Property Law—one of the top ten in the nation (U.S. News & World Report).
• Space Architecture—only graduate program of its kind in the world.

Distinguished Faculty

• Nobel Peace Prize—Jody Williams, social work
• National Medal of Science—C.W. “Paul” Chu, physics
• National Academy of Sciences—C.W. “Paul” Chu, physics
• National Academy of Engineering—Fazle Hussain, mechanical engineering; Dan Luss, chemical engineering; Michael Y.H. Pao, mechanical engineering; John Lienhard, mechanical engineering (emeritus); Allen Rhodes, mechanical engineering; and James Symons, civil engineering (emeritus)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences—C.W. “Paul” Chu, physics.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences—C.W. “Paul” Chu. Dr. Chu also is a member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica, and the Third World Academy of Sciences.
• French National Academy of Technology—Roland Glowinski, mathematics

Community

• Student Service—UH students work more than 1 million hours in the surrounding community each year through internships and other course-related programs.
• Best Neighbor — The University of Houston was named among the nation's top 25 "Best Neigbor" colleges and universities in a 2009 survey, based on the positive impact  UH has on its community.
• Disaster Relief—Following Hurricane Katrina, UH admitted more than 1,600 Louisiana students, hosted Loyola University’s administration and law school, provided vision care for 2,800 evacuees in Houston shelters; and, following the Indian Ocean Tsunami, designed new shelters for survivors in Thailand.
• Summer Camps—UH offers 184 programs for children each summer, ranging from science and engineering to theater.
• Design / Build Studio—Each year, this College of Architecture Studio builds, from concept to completion, a new facility for local non-profits such as schools and Little League teams.
• Public School Partnerships—UH faculty and colleges support more than 200 outreach projects in the public schools, including the Houston Teacher’s Institute, which helps refresh HISD teachers with new ideas and teaching techniques that have reached more than 40,000 students since 1999.
• The Arts—The Moores School of Music serves 129,000 people per year in 297 events; the School of Theatre plays to more than 8,000; and the Blaffer Gallery, the Museum of the University of Houston, hosts 20,000 visitors.

Alumni

• CEOs—More than 3,500 of our alumni are head their own company or are presidents or chief executives of businesses or corporations.
• Powerful Alumni—Among our nearly 200,000 alumni are the U.S. Secretary of Education, congressmen and legislators, the CEO of Dynegy, the CEO of Neiman Marcus, astronauts, judges, educators, actors and artists, and many more.
• Texas Legislature—UH has the second-most alumni in the Texas State Legislature.
• Cougars in the Limelight—Our long history of successful alumni in the arts includes actors Dennis and Randy Quaid, Brent Spiner, Loretta Devine, and Robert Wuhl; authors Alice Sebold and Padgett Powell; singer Larry Gatlin; artists Julian Schnabel, Michael Ray Charles, “The Art Guys”—Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing; broadcasters Jim Nantz, Tom Jarriel, Dominique Sachse; clothing designer Victor Costa; film producer Walter Coblenz; and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Adrees Latif.
• World-class Athletes—Cougar athletic stars include Olympic medalists Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell; Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware; NBA stars Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon; golfers Fred Couples, Steve Elkington and Fuzzy Zoeller; and MLB pitchers Doug Drabek, Ryan Wagner and Woody Williams.