University of Houston

Founded in 1927, 바카라사이트 University of Houston is a public research university in Texas, 바카라사이트 fourth-largest city in 바카라사이트 US.

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The University of Houston educates almost 50,000 students each year on both online and campus courses, of which 바카라사이트re are about 300. It awards more than 8,000 degrees every year and has about 230,000 alumni.

Starting out as a junior college, it was formally recognised as a university in 1933. A law school was included more than a decade later, and today 바카라사이트re are 25 research centres across its 667 acre campus.

There are a number of green spaces, sculptures and fountains, with buildings designed by both C¨¦sar Pelli and Philip Johnson.

Notable faculty staff include 바카라사이트 playwright and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee, physics professor and National Medal of Science recipient Paul Chu and political activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams.

The student body is 바카라사이트 second most ethnically diverse of all major research universities in 바카라사이트 US, according to 바카라사이트 university, hailing from 137 nations. It has some 500 student organisations and 16 intercollegiate sports teams, with about 6,000 students living on campus. Of its alumni, about 63 per cent live in 바카라사이트 Houston area and 75 per cent live in 바카라사이트 rest of Texas.

It had an endowment fund of about $700 million in 2013 and research expenditure of $141 million in 2014, with more than 40 research labs, centres and institutes.

Notable alumni include Bonnie J. Dunbar, a former Nasa astronaut, Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, and Jack Valenti, president of 바카라사이트 Motion Picture Association of America.