University of Houston - Clear Lake Overview

University of Houston - Clear Lake is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. Houston is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is University of Houston - Clear Lake Known For?

• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at UH Clear Lake.
• In 2021-2022, 59% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, UH Clear Lake bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $55,946 a year. That's about 37% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is University of Houston - Clear Lake?

Contact details for UH Clear Lake are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2700 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX 77058-1002
Phone:	281-283-7600
Website:	www.uhcl.edu

How Do I Get Into UH Clear Lake?

You can apply to UH Clear Lake online at: https://www.applytexas.org/adappc/gen/c_start.WBX

Admission Requirements for UH Clear Lake

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	1
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	3
Recommendations	3
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into UH Clear Lake?

UH Clear Lake has an acceptance rate of 69%, which means it is fairly selective. Take that into account when you are working on your application and gathering requested materials. Do what you can to stand out among other applicants.

Approximately 38% of accepted students are men and 62% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 64%, and the acceptance rate for women is 73%.

Average Test Scores

About 31% of students accepted to UH Clear Lake submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 490 and 583. Math scores were between 500 and 590.

UH Clear Lake received ACT scores from 3% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 16 and 22. Math scores were between 17 and 0. Composite scores were between 19 and 23.

Can I Afford University of Houston - Clear Lake?

The overall average net price of UH Clear Lake is $33,836. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At UH Clear Lake, approximately 19% of students took out student loans averaging $5,464 a year. That adds up to $21,856 over four years for those students.

University of Houston - Clear Lake Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 6,764 undergraduate students at UH Clear Lake, with 3,363 being full-time and 3,401 being part-time.

There are also 2,515 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,363 full-time undergraduates at UH Clear Lake, 36% are male and 64% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of University of Houston - Clear Lake students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	268
Black or African American	230
Hispanic or Latino	1,511
White	1,143
International Students	62
Other Races/Ethnicities	149

Over 53 countries are represented at UH Clear Lake. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia.

Online Learning at University of Houston - Clear Lake

There are 3 bachelor’s degree and 6 master’s degree programs available online at UH Clear Lake. In 2022-2023, 4,269 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at UH Clear Lake has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 56th most popular in Texas for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2022-2023.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of UH Clear Lake majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Engineering	27%
General Business Administration and Management	6%
Human Resources Development	17%
Software Engineering	53%

University of Houston - Clear Lake Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	118	163	0	281
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	238	0	0	238
General Psychology	122	32	0	154
Health & Medical Administrative Services	54	85	0	139
Accounting	109	21	0	130
General Biology	104	24	0	128
Computer Engineering	30	55	0	85
Computer Science	46	26	0	72
Finance & Financial Management	45	22	0	67
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	57	7	64
General Business/Commerce	60	0	0	60
Health & Physical Education	57	0	0	57
Fine & Studio Arts	50	0	0	50
Behavioral Science	46	3	0	49
Criminology	39	10	0	49
Human Resource Management	0	41	0	41
History	34	7	0	41
Mental & Social Health Services	0	40	0	40
Communication & Media Studies	36	0	0	36
Educational Administration	0	19	17	36
Natural Resources Conservation	23	12	0	35
Mechanical Engineering	33	0	0	33
Marketing	31	0	0	31
Computer Information Systems	24	5	0	29
Engineering-Related Fields	0	29	0	29
Mathematics	27	2	0	29
Management Information Systems	27	0	0	27
Information Science	0	27	0	27
General English Literature	23	2	0	25
Social Work	25	0	0	25
Library & Information Science	0	24	0	24
Anthropology	21	0	0	21
Liberal Arts General Studies	9	9	0	18
Public Administration	18	0	0	18
Biotechnology	0	16	0	16
Chemistry	11	4	0	15
Sociology	10	5	0	15
Instructional Media Design	0	14	0	14
Public Health	6	8	0	14
Legal Support Services	13	0	0	13
Physics	8	4	0	12
Curriculum & Instruction	0	7	3	10
Nursing	10	0	0	10
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	0	7	0	7
General Education	0	6	0	6
Student Counseling	0	6	0	6
Geography & Cartography	6	0	0	6
Systems Engineering	0	5	0	5
Multicultural & Diversity Studies	0	5	0	5
Communications Technology	0	4	0	4
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	4	0	4
Human Development & Family Studies	4	0	0	4
Statistics	0	3	0	3
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	1,517	813	27	2,357

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
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