Houston, TX (population: 2,307,883) has twelve business management schools within its city limits. Rice University, the highest ranked school in the city with a business management program, has a total student population of 5,576. It is the 28th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Texas. To learn more about business management programs in Houston, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of business management professors at Rice University such as Margaret Cording, and Haiyang Li.
Business Management students from Houston schools who go on to become business executives, businessmen, businesswomen, managers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,063,670 people working as business and financial operations employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,900. Also, Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes make on average $87,430 per year and there are about 11,700 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are ** employed agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes earning an average salary of $27,250. Business and financial operations employees in this area earn $69,500/yr and there are 109,810 employed.
Houston lies in Harris county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 42.829 out of every 1000 jobs in Houston are held by business and financial operations employees, and **/1000 are held by agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes.
Of the 12 business management schools in Houston, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Houston Westside Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,225/yr) for business management students, with Texas Southern University as the lowest, reported at only $7,672/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Houston |
| South Houston | TX | - | 1 | 23.7623 | 5 | 11.9 miles |
| Pearland | TX | 94,215 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.0 miles |
| Pasadena | TX | 148,101 | 8 | 24.6579 | 264 | 16.3 miles |
| Missouri City | TX | 77,622 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.5 miles |
| Baytown | TX | 71,405 | 1 | 12.8813 | 98 | 25.3 miles |
| League City | TX | 78,312 | 0 | - | 0 | 25.7 miles |
| The Woodlands | TX | 101,065 | 1 | 14.626 | 77 | 27.6 miles |
| Texas City | TX | 44,907 | 1 | 8.31197 | 63 | 35.9 miles |
| Conroe | TX | 61,600 | 0 | - | 0 | 38.3 miles |
| Prairie View | TX | - | 1 | 50.8259 | 82 | 42.2 miles |
| Galveston | TX | 57,154 | 3 | 22.3727 | 45 | 47.7 miles |
| Beaumont | TX | 110,900 | 4 | 27.5152 | 152 | 78.1 miles |
| College Station | TX | 90,406 | 1 | 0.218495 | 0 | 79.5 miles |
| Bryan | TX | 73,832 | 2 | 27.1681 | 5 | 85.5 miles |