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University of Houston - Downtown was awarded 38 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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UH Downtown landed the #1,233 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
UH Downtown also holds the #50 spot on the Best Colleges in Texas ranking.
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With an acceptance rate of 88%, UH Downtown has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 43% of students accepted to UH Downtown submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 480 and 550. Math scores were between 480 and 550.
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The student to faculty ratio at University of Houston - Downtown is about average at 18 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Houston - Downtown is 50%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at University of Houston - Downtown is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at UH Downtown is 9%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 13,663 undergraduates at UH Downtown with 6,865 being full-time and 6,798 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14,028 | $13,594 | $16,265 | $19,926 | $22,734 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UH Downtown, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UH Downtown, approximately 19% of students took out student loans averaging $4,515 a year. That adds up to $18,060 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for UH Downtown are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002-1014 |
| Phone: | 713-221-8000 |
| Website: | www.uhd.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 1,027 | $53,764 |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 722 | $49,734 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 322 | $42,122 |
| Accounting | 287 | $54,128 |
| General Psychology | 253 | $35,808 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 171 | $47,108 |
| General Business/Commerce | 147 | $47,469 |
| Management Information Systems | 128 | $51,314 |
| Computer Information Systems | 118 | $56,475 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 108 | $34,123 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 10,764 students took at least one online class at University of Houston - Downtown. This is a decrease from the 12,231 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 10,764 | 5,456 |
| 2021-2022 | 12,231 | 6,072 |
| 2020-2021 | 15,154 | 12,946 |
| 2018-2019 | 7,246 | 2,851 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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