University of Houston Top Questions

UH students are diverse and are either working full-time or part-time to support ourselves and our families.

The University of Houston is a diverse institution. It is also a commuter school. Throughout my entire university career I have constantly heard "There's no need to get involved, I won't ever have time" or "The clubs are only for people who live on campus!" In addition, there are the beliefs that UH is a not a top school and so a lot of times students might not show their cougar pride. However, these misconceptions are not at all accurate. The university offers a diverse menu of student organizations, whether it is fraternities/sororities, honors associations (pre-med, pre-health, NSCS, etc), social clubs (Cougar Salseros, Social Dance Club), athletics (intramurals, fencing, soccer, football, swimming,etc). Our University prides itself on how much school involvement there actually is. Furthermore, UH has recently achieved Tier One in Research status, meaning we have attained the same prestige that other Universities in Texas have achieved (aTm, UT). Lastly, we have one of the best football teams in our conference and the amount of students that wear red to show their school team pride is impecable!

UH is known for having a very diverse student body, you often here people call us the "commuter campus." Obviously there's the typical frat guys and sorority girls that you see on every campus but UH has everything