Do these satellite campuses take away students from the main campus?
Well yes if you mean physically take them away from the main campus. However it is all the same institution so they count as students the same way someone at the main campus does.
Unlike UH-Downtown and UH-Clear Lake, Sugar Land and Katy aren’t separate universities.
At this point? I would probably say yes.
Because I don’t think all employers are going to see a difference between an engineer grad from UH-Main and UH-Sugarland (granted the GPA is good)
They won’t see the difference because the diploma and transcript will be the same. It won’t say UH Sugar Land. It’s the same degree…just like if you took classes online. You just take them at a different physical location.
Now a majority of the engineering students can attend class right around the corner. Lucky.
Yep. But employers definitely see a difference between UH-Main and UHCL or UHD.
Yes, that is correct and my point is taking classes from the University of Houston at UH-Sugarland is no different than taking classes online or if your classes were in Agnes Arnold. It’s all University of Houston.
First Technology, now Engineering.
We keep creating more and more “super commuters.”
I interpreted this question to be a reason why students do not live on campus.
For reference, here’s the undergraduate eprograms at UH Sugar Land from the Cullen College of Engineering: Undergraduate Degree Programs | UH Cullen College of Engineering
As has been previously discusssed on Coogfans, these were all programs formerly in the College of Technology until they merged it with Engineering.
See to me, three of those fields (Retailing, Logistics, and Human Resources) should be in the Bauer business school, not Engineering/Technology.
Seems like a bad fit.
Yes, that should be the whole point to having them
I didn’t seem to have an issue getting a job, lol.
That doesn’t disprove what I said.
You didn’t prove what you said either. Just speculation.
The hiring stats shows it. You can also look at who hires at each at career fairs. It’s not the same. Schools like UHCL do well in pockets but don’t keep with UH-Main overall.
In any event, here’s some data on similar business majors for UHD vs UH-Main. It doesn’t look like UHCL reports consistent data to compare.
University of Houston (Main – Bauer College)
Source: Rockwell Career Center (graduate surveys, 2023–24)
Overall BBA average: $70,472
Finance: $75,067
MIS: $76,115
Management: $60,896
Accounting: $70,774
University of Houston–Downtown (UHD – Marilyn Davies COB)
Source: UHD Career Center (graduate surveys, Class of 2023)
Accounting: $58,173
Finance: $61,267
Marketing: $64,681
General Business: $61,250
MIS: $61,205
Management: $51,721
Or you stick them in CLASS, I agree. They made sense when College of Technology was its own thing, not now after behind swallowed by engineering.
I’m coming back to this question because I think there’s one other thing we overlooked and that these engineering programs (formerly COT) at UH Sugarland aren’t available on the main campus anymore so these students are physically not on the main campus as there is not an option for them to be. Financially, and academically they are still part of the main University of Houston and their degrees will be from University of Houston.
So, are all courses such as math, english, etc. that are needed to graduate as a mechanical engineer located at the Sugar Land campus or will the student commute to the main campus?
Does he take a class on Monday in Sugar Land then Tuesday on the main campus? Where would he live?
On the one hand, neat, you get new buildings and theoretically new equipment.
On the other hand, you’re thirty miles away from main campus, and the one-two building setup there feels much more community college than university.
Now, if you live down that way, the trade-off is probably worth it for the traffic. However, I have to think that’s going to be detrimental to any cohesive feeling with main campus.
Maybe the students won’t care, and it’s a moot point. I lived in Gulfton/ Sharpstown when I was in school. Swinging down 59 probably would have been a lot easier, but I would have had zero motivation to spend a single minute in town or on campus if my classes were just there in Sugar Land.
That said, I still wanted more of a college experience. That whole dynamic may have changed so much that it doesn’t matter. If you can get a degree completely online and have some feeling of affiliation, maybe this works too.