The University of Houston has 17 deans overseeing the 16 academic colleges and the UH Libraries. Deans are the chief executive officers of their college or school and report to the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.

Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

Andrew C. Davis

Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design

Patricia Belton Oliver

C.T. Bauer College of Business

Paul Pavlou

College of Education

Cathy Horn

Cullen College of Engineering

Joseph W. Tedesco

Graduate College of Social Work

Sarah Larsen, Interim Dean

Hobby School of Public Affairs

Jim Granato

Honors College

Heidi M. Appel

Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership

Dennis Reynolds

UH Law Center

Leonard Baynes

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Daniel P. O'Connor

Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine

Stephen J. Spann

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Dan Wells

Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing

Kathryn Tart

College of Optometry

Michael Twa

College of Pharmacy

F. Lamar Pritchard

University of Houston Libraries

Athena N. Jackson