Education in Houston
Houston is the seat of the internationally renowned Texas Medical Center, which contains the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions.
They provide patient and preventive care, research, education, and local, national, and international community well-being.
It is where one of the first—and still the largest—air emergency service, Life Flight, was created, and a very successful inter-institutional transplant program was developed.
The Baylor College of Medicine has annually been considered within the top ten medical schools in the nation; likewise, the MD Anderson Cancer Center has consistently ranked as one of the top two U.S. hospitals specializing in cancer care by U.S. News & World Report since 1990.
[3][4] The Menninger Clinic, a renowned psychiatric treatment center, is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital System.
The University of Houston System's annual impact on the Houston-area's economy equates to that of a major corporation: $1.1 billion in new funds attracted annually to the Houston area, $3.13 billion in total economic benefit, and 24,000 local jobs generated according to studies in 2006.
[11][12] This is in addition to the 12,500 new graduates the UH System produces every year who enter the workforce in Houston and throughout Texas.
[12] Several private institutions of higher learning—ranging from liberal arts colleges to a nationally recognized research university—are located within the city.
[17]A portion of west Houston falls under the Spring Branch and Alief independent school districts.
Parts of Pasadena, Clear Creek, Conroe, Crosby, Cypress-Fairbanks, Fort Bend, Galena Park, Huffman, Humble, Katy, Klein, New Caney, Sheldon, and Spring independent school districts also take students from the city limits of Houston or otherwise cover parts of the Houston city limits.
[26] Houston has numerous private schools of all types, including non-sectarian, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant, and Muslim.
[citation needed] In addition, Houston area Catholic schools are operated by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
Around 1993 increasing numbers of parents in Greater Houston sent their children to private schools.
Stephanie Asin of the Houston Chronicle said "[t]here is no central authority over private schools so collecting enrollment statistics is difficult.
