Undergraduate Major
Fields of Study

Accreditation
Undergraduate Majors

The University of Houston comprises 14 colleges and schools: Architecture; Business Administration; Education; Engineering; Honors; Hotel and Restaurant Management; Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication; Law; Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Optometry; Pharmacy; Social Sciences; Social Work; and Technology. They offer 15 baccalaureate degrees in 129 fields of study, 31 master's degrees in 115 fields, and four doctoral degrees in 44 fields.

The Law Center and the Graduate School of Social Work offer only graduate degrees. For more information about these and other graduate-level programs, refer to the Graduate and Professional Studies catalog.

Accreditations

The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as a Level IV, General postsecondary institution. In addition, the university is a member of the National Commission on Accrediting, the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities, the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges, the Association of Urban Universities, and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. The colleges and programs may hold memberships or accreditations by additional agencies. Agencies and associations in which the colleges and schools hold membership and/or by which they are accredited include the following:

College of Architecture

National Architectural Accrediting Board

College of Business Administration

American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business

College of Education

Accredited by the Texas Education Agency and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

Cullen College of Engineering

All five undergraduate degree programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication

The Communication Disorders Program is accredited by the American Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology (ABESPA) of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASLHA). The School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.

Law Center

American Bar Association

American Law Schools

College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

American Chemical Society

Computer Science Accreditation Commission

College of Optometry

American Optometric Association Council on Optometric Education (member of the National Commission on Accrediting)

College of Pharmacy

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education

College of Social Sciences

The graduate programs in clinical psychology and counseling psychology are accredited by the American Psychological Association.

Graduate School of Social Work

Council on Social Work Education

College of Technology

Accredited by the Texas Education Agency and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

The following engineering technology curricula are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET): civil technology, electrical technology, and mechanical technology. The Department of Human Development and Consumer Sciences--Human Nutrition and Foods is certified by the American Dietetics Association.

Various departments within the colleges hold membership in professional accrediting organizations.

Undergraduate Major Fields of Study

A list of undergraduate major fields of study offered by the University of Houston follows. Detailed information about these programs can be found in the college sections of this catalog.

Click on a letter below to jump to the fields of study that begin with that letter | A | B | C | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | M | O | P | Q | R | S | T |

Accountancy (College of Business Administration)

Accounting (College of Business Administration)

Anthropology (College of Social Sciences )

Architecture ( College of Architecture)

Art (College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication)

Art History (College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication)

Art (Studio) (College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication)

Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)

Biology (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)

Biology--Medical Technology (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)

Chemical Engineering (Cullen College of Engineering)

Chemistry (College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)