Texas Southern University is a public institution that was founded in 1947. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 7,021, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 150 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Texas Southern University's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, Tier 2.

Texas Southern University is one of the largest historically black colleges and is located in downtown Houston, one of the largest U.S. cities. Consequently, students have more than a wide variety of undergraduate majors to consider, as well as more than 80 student clubs and organizations to check out.