Biotechnology at University of Houston - Downtown

If you plan to study biotechnology, take a look at what University of Houston - Downtown has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UH Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 15,239 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Biotechnology section at the bottom of this page.

UH Downtown Biotechnology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Biotech

UH Downtown Biotechnology Rankings

The biotech major at UH Downtown is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Biotechnology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Biotech Student Demographics at UH Downtown

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the biotech majors at University of Houston - Downtown.

UH Downtown Biotechnology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of biotech bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical biotech bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% men. So male students are more repesented at UH Downtown since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% more racial-ethnic minorities in its biotech bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Houston - Downtown with a bachelor's in biotech.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	1
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Careers That Biotech Grads May Go Into

A degree in biotech can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for University of Houston - Downtown.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Biological Science Professors	4,470	$99,940
Natural Sciences Managers	2,620	$127,270
Biological Scientists	2,100	$80,900

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
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nick22aku under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.