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Rice is...
- A university located in Houston, Texas, founded by William Marsh Rice in 1891, opened
for classes in 1911, having changed in name from "Institute" to
"University" in 1960 to reflect its broadened curriculum and mission.
- An institution of the highest academic standards, emphasizing traditional, broad
undergraduate curriculum in the liberal arts and the most advanced technical and
scientific disciplines.
- One of the top fifteen national universities in the United States as consistently rated
by the most well-recognized sources.
- The most academically rigorous university, with the highest standard of admission,
in Texas, the South and Southwestern United States.
- A university rated consistently as the very best in the nation in regard to value of
education for the expense thereof, with an education which is the equal to the
finest Ivy League schools at a tuition which is approximately one-half that charged by
such institutions.
- A charter member of the Southwest Athletic Conference, founded in 1915, and a competitor
in major intercollegiate athletics since that date.
- Home to 2,655 undergraduate students, making it the smallest university (by far)
to compete in NCAA division 1 football.
- Organized by Residential College, with neither social fraternities nor sororities, but
with each of eight colleges affording its students housing, board, social organization and
structure, student government and curriculum participation opportunities.
- With neither academic nor residential exception made for its scholarship athletes, which
are integrated academically, residentially and socially within the undergraduate student
body as a whole.
- Originally modeled in scope and curriculum after the Cooper Union in New York,
with the assistance of Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, later
President of the United States.
- With original campus design and architecture by Ralph Adams Cram, of the firm of
Goodhue, Cram and Ferguson, New York.
For more information on Rice, see:
RiceInfo: the Rice University main web page
Rice Facts--from the Rice
University Office of Institutional Research
Houston Chronicle (August 31)--
Fundraiser
Garners $110 million for Rice
Houston Chronicle (September 8)--
Rice
reaps donation of $12 million from Houston Endowment
US News and World
Report College Rankings--Rice
The Princeton Review of Colleges and Universities--Rice
Peterson's
Guide to Colleges and Universities--Rice
Information for prospective
students
A Walking Tour of Rice
University
Text of Rice President Malcom Gillis'
letter to alumni on Rice's status in the Western Athletic conference
About Rice Stadium, the
largest stadium in the Western Athletic Conference and home to Super Bowl VIII
Links to Information about the City of
Houston
Rice University Orientation Week/1998
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