By the numbers

Undergraduate Enrollment	2,995
In-state Tuition (per semester hour, unless noted)	$25,606 per year
Out-of-state Tuition (per semester hour, unless noted)	$25,606 per year
Yearly Room and Board	$7,001+
% of Students on Financial Aid	36
Median ACT	N/A
% of African American Students	6
% of Asian American Students	18
% of Hispanic Students	12
% of International Students	4
Student/Teacher Ratio	5:1
Number of Full-time Faculty	567
Student Male/Female Ratio	51/49
Greek System?	No
% of Students Who Live on Campus?	71
% of Students Who Graduate in Four Years	79
% Who Graduate Overall	93
% of Freshmen Who Return	97
% Of Alumni Who Give $$ to School	37

Rice University

Team Name:

Owls

Address:

6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005

Web:

rice.edu

Phone:

713-348-0000

Undergraduate Enrollment

2,995

Points of Distinction

Students receive a “passport to Houston” that provides free unlimited use of the Houston bus and light rail system and free or deeply discounted admissions to museums, opera, symphony, ballet and theater
95 percent of Rice students who apply to graduate or professional schools are admitted by the time they graduate
Student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 and median class size of 13
Residential college system; students live, dine, and interact with other students and faculty advisors in their college
Division I-A sports participant and more than 200 campus organizations

From its attractive grounds to its highly selective admissions process, Rice University is considered one of the “new” Ivies (although technically it’s not an Ivy League school). Rice maintains an outstanding reputation for its rigorous academics, nurturing residential college system, and ability to produce educated, wellrounded graduates. The 300-acre campus, with its parklike atmosphere and neo-Byzantine architecture, sits in the heart of downtown Houston. Thanks to the relatively new “Passport to Houston” program, which allows all Rice students free and unlimited transport on the city’s bus and light rail system, the shopping, theater, and entertainment districts are easily accessible. Home to numerous Fortune 500 companies, Houston also offers students valuable internship opportunities.

Rice enrolls just under 3,000 undergraduates, most of whom reside in one of nine coed residential colleges. Based on similar models at Oxford and Cambridge, the residential college system encourages students to develop close relationships as they live, dine, and interact with one another and faculty advisors. Each residential college also sponsors its own intramural team. More-frivolous competition exists off the field in the form of legendary practical jokes, or “jacks,” which colleges like to play on one another.

A generous endowment helps Rice maintain an enviable quality of life inside and outside the classroom. Students choose from more than 50 majors; in particular, Rice’s architecture, engineering, and computer science programs earn high praise. As part of the president’s master plan, the university will increase its enrollment to 3,800 undergraduates by 2015. Campus expansion is planned to accommodate such changes, with the construction of two new residential colleges currently under way.