Incoming freshman has heart for UHV

Isaac Babalola, a senior at Dulles High School in Sugar Land, is coming to the University of Houston-Victoria because it just felt right.

Isaac Babalola

“I believe my heart is saying I should go there,” he said.

While at UHV, he hopes earn a degree in business.

“I think it’s a way for me to get to learn how the world operates,” he said.

Then he hopes to pursue a career in acting. He already has his first acting credit as his school’s mascot, a Viking, for the last two years.

The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 80 academic programs in the schools of Arts & Sciences; Business Administration; and Education, Health Professions & Human Development. UHV provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as an instructional site in Katy, Texas, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. UHV supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.