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The university serves students in 12 academic colleges and in the interdisciplinary Honors College on a 667 acre (2.7 km2) campus in southeast Houston. UH offers nearly 320 degree programs: 120 bachelors, 139 masters, 54 research doctorates, and three professional doctorate degrees-law, optometry, and pharmacy. Awarding more than 7,100 degrees annually, the university's alumni base is the largest in the Houston area. 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. Interdisciplinary research conducted at UH includes superconductivity, space commercialization, biomedical engineering, economics, education, petroleum exploration, and virtual technology. The university hosts a variety of theatrical performances, concerts, lectures, and intercollegiate athletic events. Its varsity athletics teams—known as the Houston Cougars—are members of Conference USA and compete in the NCAA's Division I in all sports . The football team regularly makes bowl game appearances, and the men's basketball team has made sixteen appearances in the NCAA Division I Tournament, including five Final Four appearances. The men's golf team has won sixteen national championships, the second most of any NCAA golf program. |
