A 19% increase in employment is forecasted by 2025 for the Inner Loop and a 20.26% increase for those areas considered within all or a portion of the Greater Southeast Management District boundaries.  The following are descriptions of the District's largest employers.

The Texas Medical Center

One of the largest employers in Houston is the Texas Medical Center (TMC).  With over 65,000 employees, the TMC is located in the western section of the District.  The 50-year mater plan for the TMC is to integrate the hospital system planning within a comprehensive regional growth strategy that includes strengthening public transit, thus enhancing accessibility to and through the area.

The University of Houston

The University of Houston is 77 years old and began as a junior college in Fall 1927 with an enrollment of 461 students. In comparison, the University's enrollment in Fall 2004 reached 35,117 students and is now considered one of the premier research and teaching universities in Texas. The main campus, located at the northwest quadrant of Cullen and Wheeler, has twelve academic colleges, the interdisciplinary Honors
College, and a number of schools and programs that offer 286 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. In excess of 300 partnerships are maintained with government and private industry for research in areas such as superconductivity, space commercialization, biomedical engineering, economics, education, petroleum exploration, and virtual technology. The UH Law Center, ranked in the second tier nationally, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary.

The UH Administration projects 2004/05 enrollment to increase by 5% to 37,000 in Fall 2005, representing a growth of 5.4%, and then by 1.7% annually to 39,600 students to the Fall 2010. Projected enrollment increases are listed as follows, with the student population reaching a maximum of 42,000 in 2015.

Texas Southern University

Texas Southern University is located southeast of the Houston Central Business District at the southwest quadrant of Tierwester and Wheeler. The 150-acre campus is improved with 45 buildings and has more than 11,000 students, faculty, and staff. The University is considered unique, as it is one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the State of Texas. The open enrollment policy is one that accepts all eligible students with a high school diploma or GED equivalent.

TSU participates in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Preparation Program (LSAMP) that is credited with increasing the number of students graduating with bachelor's degrees in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. One of the largest and most significant departments is that of Education. Recent estimates provided by TSU report “about 40 percent of the teachers in the Houston Independent School District are graduates of the University.” Graduate curriculum includes both a pharmacy program and Thurgood Marshall School of Law.

The Fall 2002 enrollment is forecast to increase by 18.9% to 11,582 by the Fall 2005, and then by 5.3% annually to 15,000 students to the Fall 2009.