Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S. and regarded as the Energy Capital of the World, is a leader in technology, business, entertainment, and the arts. Home of NASA's Johnson Space Center and the world's largest concentration of medical professionals, the city is known for its cutting-edge research and technology development. It is also renowned for its superb arts and entertainment scene.
Houston houses five major league sports teams, including the National League Champion Houston Astros. Our Museum District is home to 15 institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the sixth-largest museum in the country, and the Houston Museum of Natural Science,. Houston is only one of five U.S. cities with resident companies in the four disciplines of the performing arts. The city is also hosting eight matches of the FIFA 2026 World Cup.
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The University of Houston (UH) is a public doctoral/research university in Houston, Texas.
The 560-acre campus is the flagship institution and the only doctoral degree-granting University in the UH System, which includes three other universities and two multi-institution teaching centers.
Founded in 1927, the University serves more than 48,000 students in 12 academic colleges, the interdisciplinary Honors College and the Graduate College. UH is ranked second among national universities for Campus Ethnic Diversity by U.S. News and World Report, with over 130 countries represented. UH conducts research in each academic department and operates more than 40 campus research centers and institutes.
The University of Houston has been named one of only 21 institutions nationwide to earn both the "Very High Research Activity" (R1) and "Opportunity College & University – Higher Access, Higher Earnings" designations in the newly released 2025 Carnegie Classifications. This dual recognition places UH in a distinguished group of universities that lead the nation in advancing both research innovation and socioeconomic mobility.
TcSUH is a large multidisciplinary university-based superconductivity and advanced materials research center. We have over 200 faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, and visiting scholars from five departments who work to discover and improve new materials, advance science and engineering, and transfer breakthroughs in technology to the industrial sector, impacting the emerging HTS electric power community, the medical community and other sectors.
The Center’s multidisciplinary research programs are training the next generation of scientists and engineers.