University of Houston
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The University of Houston (also referred to as UH, U of H, or Houston) is a public research university located in Houston and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded on March 7, 1927 as Houston Junior College, UH is the third-largest university in Texas and 23rd-largest university in the United States with an enrollment of 36,104.^[1][5]

The university serves students in 12 academic colleges and in the interdisciplinary Honors College on a 595-acre (2.41 km²) campus in southeast-central Houston. UH offers over 300 degree programs: 112 bachelors, 135 masters, 54 doctoral, and three special professional degrees—law, optometry, and pharmacy.^[6] Awarding more than 7,000 degrees annually, the university's alumni base is the largest in the city of Houston.^[1] Also known for its diverse student population, it perennially ranks as the second-most ethnically diverse national university in the country by U.S. News and World Report.

The University of Houston conducts research in each academic department and operates more than 40 research centers and institutes on campus.^[7] Interdisciplinary research conducted at UH includes superconductivity, space commercialization, biomedical engineering, economics, education, petroleum exploration, and virtual technology.

The university hosts a variety of theatre, concerts, lectures, and intercollegiate sports. Its varsity athletics teams—known as the Houston Cougars—are members of the American Athletic Conferece (AAC) and compete in the NCAA's Division I. The football team regularly makes bowl game appearances. The men's basketball team has made sixteen appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament including two national championship appearances and was a participant in the Game of the Centur/y. The men's golf team has won sixteen national championships which is the second-most of any college team.

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