Isn’t UH downtown expanding to fill the void of accepting more working students.
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Anyone have the official report on total 2024 fall enrollment?
Someone said Forbes reported 52000 but I haven’t been able to find UH ‘s report. Maybe wait for the annual address report.
This is true, here’s an example. So this BS reasoning of sending potential students to UHD or HCC is idiotic. UH students aren’t some low level academic students, that a few posters here want you to believe.
The year I got accepted, we were told during orientation that out of the over 2000 applications they received, only 180 students across all 3 offered majors (Architecture, Industrial design, and interior architecture) got accepted. This means that in any given year, depending on how many students apply, the acceptance rate of the CoAD is at most 8-9% . This would make it the most competitive college to get into at UH. This is in line with many Architecture programs across the country. However, this number should not discourage you from applying! For this reason
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Too bad architecture doesn’t pay what it should, at least they get more credit than us engineers
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We do ok a few years down the line, but not starting.
One thing to note, as I took my son to visit some Ivy league schools, many of them accept students with no major for their freshman year and allow student to declare after their freshman or sophomore year. Their thought is that they want their students to discover what they truly want to do and this allows them to explore. Certain STEM programs allow a student only their freshman year to explore as their course load is different.
Oh yeah, there is no limit on any of their majors so students do not have to worry about a spot not being available for them once they declare. Some majors at UH are very limited seats and even though that might get better qualified student into more “elite” programs, it is not cool if qualified student have to transfer out because their major selection is full.
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Does Rice allow students to choose any major after freshman year?
Even at Wake Forest and UNC, you have to apply to the business school after a year or two and there are limited seats.
Purdue, meanwhile, has GPA cutoffs for declaring majors based on their competitiveness. For Computer Science specifically, I’ve been told that you have to have a 4.0.
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I dont understand the reasoning behind anyone wanting to cap enrollment at 50k as someone mentioned above, and i have heard other times. If the university has the resources and good students are applying then they should be accepted. Why limit the number of good students that you accept? These students with their college education could someday become very successful and solve world problems or at the very least give back to the university that provided them the opportunity to succeed. The larger your enrollment the larger your alumni base can be, which allows you to pull more resources.
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Raise the transfer gpa to 3.0. 
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In theory, you’re right. Utilitizibt the 200 person lecture halls for 14 hours a day, instead of 6, would be efficient use of capital buildings.
The sticking point is Human Resources to do the teaching. Would finding professors to teach after 4pm, in quality, be an easy find?
I don’t think higher admissions standards are holding us back from 50K. It’ll soon be a reduction in HS graduates.
UT just raised its admissions standards for fall 2026. Lack of space is an issue.
This. And raise the GPA to get into Bauer to at least 3.3-3.4
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It’s already above 3.0. Why do you guys keep thinking UH is open admissions?
https://publications.uh.edu/content.php?catoid=44&navoid=15664
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I believe all my upper level (jr/sr level) engineering classes were after 4pm. It fit my schedule pretty well, get out of class at 10pm and start drankin.
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Very true…there is a HUGE dip in potential college age students happening here soon.
The 2008-2010 recession saw a steep drop off in birth rates and has struggled to get back up the replacement level ever since.
Those 2008 babies turn 18 in 2026.
Right now we are at the peak…right before the fall.
UH HAS to become a destination University and UH HAS to effectively target students from other states
It IS a matter of survival
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I’m not as worried as some are about that.
Why?
Because any lack of birth rate can be made up for via IMMIGRATION. As long as more people keep moving to the USA seeking an education (and there are always plenty of those), it could very well make up for a big chunk of the baby bust in the domestic non-immigrant population.
It’s not so much that UH needs to be a destination university - that will come as long as we continue improving our academic ranking.
it’s more so that Houston needs to be a destination city.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing in Houston that really brings kids from other states in. Houston is still known for its hot weather, lack of public transit, sprawl, and no natural attractions. All we have is food, bars, lackluster museums, and a 1 or 2 large, underwhelming parks (Memorial Park and Herman Park), which again, have no public transportation to and from campus.
What makes east coast schools so amazing is the walkability in their city centers. We have none because Downtown is still primarily a business center
What makes west coast schools so amazing is the weather and beaches. We have terrible weather and a mediocre beach.
What makes flyover state schools so amazing is that the entire city revolves around their university.
Houston offers none of that, largely because Houston has built itself on sporadic urban sprawl instead of developing a thriving inner city that spreads out incrementally.
I think Houston will eventually get nicer, but it’s going to take another 20 years until Houston is anything attractive. As long as Houston grows itself through further sprawling, it’s only going to continue this trend. Luckily, the inner loop is becoming attractive again, but it will still take a long time until Houston becomes known for being a thriving city center
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We aren’t particularly pro-immigration at the moment. Even legal but recent immigration has helped boost the economic output.
Tough time to be building dorms.
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Yet immigrants, including college aged immigrants, keep POURING in.
To some extent, that offsets any "baby bust.”
That’s also why the US population won’t decline, despite that baby bust: because we keep getting new immigrants at a far higher rate than most developed countries.