Rice University is a private institution that was founded in
1912.
It
has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,965,
its setting is urban,
and the campus size is 285 acres.
It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
Rice University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges
is National Universities,
19.
Its tuition and fees are $40,566 (2014-15).
Rice University, located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District,
offers a dynamic student life in the nation’s fourth-largest city. The
Rice Coffeehouse, Valhalla Pub and Willy’s Pub are all student-run
institutions offering on-campus food and drink. Before stepping foot on
campus, all students are assigned to one of 11 residential colleges, of
which they remain members even if they decide to move off campus. The
residential colleges provide housing, dining, and academic and social
events. The Rice Owls boast 14 varsity NCAA Division I athletic teams
and are well known for their strong baseball program. Students receive
free tickets to all varsity athletic events.
Rice is comprised of eight schools, including the School of Social
Sciences, School of Humanities and Wiess School of Natural Sciences. Its
graduate schools include the highly ranked Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and George R. Brown School of Engineering.
Rice also has a well-regarded School of Architecture and the Shepherd
School of Music. Rice is home to the James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, which offers coursework,
internships and lectures. When a private detective found Rice’s stolen
owl mascot at rival school Texas A&M in
1917, he sent a coded message back to Rice students letting them know
that "Sammy" was OK, thus bestowing a name on the school’s mascot.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to
undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking
research, unsurpassed teaching and contributions to the betterment of
our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse
community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the
spectrum of human endeavor. Located on a 300-acre forested campus in
Houston, undergraduate education has remained at the center of Rice
University's mission since its founding in 1912. Our students have
unparalleled opportunities to learn from distinguished faculty through
classroom interaction and research collaboration. Rice combines the
advantages of a liberal arts college with the resources and facilities
of a premier research university. Some of the important engineering and
science developments include Rice being the first university in the
nation with a department wholly dedicated to space science; Rice
researchers joining Dr. Michael Debakey and his Baylor College of
Medicine team to produce the first artificial heart; and Rice professors
Robert Curl and Richard Smalley and British chemist Sir Harold Kroto
receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of
buckyballs, which introduced the new field of nanotechnology. In
addition to engineering, Rice has highly respected schools of
Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Humanities, Music, Natural
Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for
Public Policy. The distinctive residential college system enhances the
Rice experience by allowing students to flourish as individuals in a
community of their peers. Rice boasts a 6:1 undergraduate
student-faculty ratio, a median class size of 14, an endowment of $4.84
billion and numerous opportunities for undergraduates to conduct primary
research. Rice practices need-blind admission, meets 100 percent of
students' demonstrated need and is consistently heralded as one of the
best values in higher education. Rice is surrounded by the Texas
Medical Center, the Museum District, Hermann Park, Rice Village and
great restaurants, and is a short light-rail ride away from theater,
symphony, ballet, opera and major league sports.
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