University of Houston
Houston, TX · Public university
2 minwalk to the closest stay
1stay inside a 20-min walk
15stays inside a 10-min drive
One trip, several campuses
College visit hotels in Houston, TX
5 schools in town164 places to stay measured
5schools,one trip
Photo: Katie Haugland Brown, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.
By the numbers
5 schools in Houston are on this site, with 164 places to stay measured around them. At 2 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 4 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 2 minutes, at University of Houston. For 1 of them the tour meeting place comes straight from the school's own visit page.
How to read these counts
A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method
The 5 schools in Houston
University of Houston, Clear Lake
Houston, TX · Public university
6 mindrive to the closest stay10stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Houston, Downtown
Houston, TX · Public university
5 minwalk to the closest stay19stays inside a 20-min walk38stays inside a 10-min driveRice University
Houston, TX · Private university
16 minwalk to the closest stay4stays inside a 20-min walk34stays inside a 10-min driveTexas Southern University
Houston, TX · Public university
17 minwalk to the closest stay3stays inside a 20-min walk43stays inside a 10-min drive
Getting from one campus to the next
Our drive estimates between the schools on this page, from map distance with no traffic. Add time for parking at each end.
- University of Houston to Texas Southern Universityabout 3 min
- Rice University to Texas Southern Universityabout 6 min
- University of Houston, Downtown to Texas Southern Universityabout 7 min
- Rice University to University of Houstonabout 8 min
- University of Houston to University of Houston, Downtownabout 8 min
- Rice University to University of Houston, Downtownabout 10 min
- University of Houston to University of Houston, Clear Lakeabout 41 min
- Texas Southern University to University of Houston, Clear Lakeabout 44 min
- Rice University to University of Houston, Clear Lakeabout 48 min
- University of Houston, Downtown to University of Houston, Clear Lakeabout 48 min
About these lists
Which colleges in Houston, TX do you cover?
5 four-year schools in Houston, TX: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.
Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Houston, TX?
At 4 of the 5, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.
Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?
For 1 of these schools we've read the commencement venue on the school's own page and show it. Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.
Where do the walking minutes come from?
From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 5 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.