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Higher education.
Home to some of the best minds in medicine: delivering excellence in research, education and patient care.
A co-educational, independent, comprehensive, Christian institution of higher learning awarding associates, bachelors and master degrees.
Leading research university with distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the world's betterment.
A land, sea and space degree-granting institution located 90 miles from Houston. Students pursue degrees in 384 fields.
Texas' premier, public metropolitan research teaching institution with: 40 research centers/institutes; 300 partnerships; offering undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and special professional degrees.
Educates health professionals/biomedical researchers, conducts premier biomedical research, and provides primary and specialty health care and health expertise.
The College of Health Care Professions (CHCP) is the largest provider of allied healthcare training in Texas, preparing learners for careers in areas such as sonography, surgical technology, and medical assisting. CHCP provides working adults with flexible pathways to economic mobility through meaningful professional careers while increasing quality healthcare to the communities it serves.
Historically minority-driven public university offering bachelors, masters, and doctorates in 78 undergraduate and 41 graduate disciplines.
WGU Texas is an accredited nonprofit, online, competency-based university designed to expand access to higher education for adult learners in Texas. Texas.wgu.edu/partnership
A program of the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership
An upper-level institution offering bachelor's and master's degrees in business, education, science and computer engineering, and human sciences and humanities.
National University is an accredited leader in over 75 online & on-campus bachelor's and graduate degree program
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Texas A&M Health comprises five colleges (dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health) and several centers and institutes with a shared mission of advancing health care.
Private institution committed to liberal arts, science, business and professional education (undergraduate and graduate) within the religious, ethical and intellectual tradition of Catholic higher education.
We are an Institution of Higher Education with the sole aim of placing Texans into great paying jobs.
Houston’s second largest university, among the nation’s most diverse, offering bachelor's and master's degree programs to 14,000 students, averaging 27 years of age.
A land-grant university authorized under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, and a comprehensive public institution of higher education.
