FACTSHEET

Students - Admissions - Degrees - Alumni - Faculty - Tuition -
Financial Aid - Support - Sponsored Programs Research Expenditures - Endowment -
Rankings - Board of Trustees - Academic Schools - Centers & Institutes

 STUDENT INFORMATION

ENROLLMENT	FALL 2004	%
Freshman1	633	22
Sophomore	704	24
Junior	693	24
Senior	856	30
Undergraduate Totals	2,886	58
Fifth Year Students2	47	1
Class III3	26	1
Visiting Students4	92	2
Graduate Total	1,922	38
Total Enrollment*	4,973	100

*Excludes 90 undergraduate students who are participating in various study abroad programs.

GRADUATE ENROLLMENT

School	FALL 2004	%
Architecture	89	5
Engineering	486	25
Humanities	171	9
Interdisciplinary	34	2
Management	494	26
Music	165	9
Natural Sciences	359	18
Social Sciences	124	6
Total	1,922	100

 

ETHNICITY, FALL 2004	Undergraduate	Graduate	%
Native American	15	4	1
Asian-American	444	129	12
African-American	198	67	5
Hispanic-American	329	91	9
Multi-Racial	71	15	2
White	1,624	782	49
International	80	599	14
Not Reported/Not Designated	172	235	8

ADMISSION INFORMATION

UNDERGRADUATE	FALL 2004
Applied	8,106
Accepted	1,802
Entered	727

2004 Acceptance rate: 22%  Yield rate: 40%

 

GRADUATE DATA (October 1, 2004)
School	Applied	Accepted	Entered
Engineering	1,543	247	115
Architecture	236	56	25
Humanities	367	67	45
Management*	695	364	159
Social Sciences	469	45	29
Music	458	90	58
Natural Sciences	1,211	205	86
Total	4,979	1,074	517

*Includes only full-time (weekday) MBA program.
Fall 2004 enrollment for the Executive MBA Program Class of 2005 is 83 and for the
Class of 2006 enrollment is 91.

DEGREES AWARDED (MAY 2005)

	NUMBER
Undergraduate	721
Professional5	25
Graduate	667
Master's6	530
Ph.D.'s	137
Total	1,413

ALUMNI INFORMATION (FALL 2004)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION	NUMBER	%
Houston	12,810	29%
Other Texas	7,508	17%
Other U.S.	19,005	42%
International	1,359	3%
Unknown	3,995	9%
Total	44,677	100%
Deceased	9,573	18%

Classification	Degree	Non-Degree	Totals
Undergraduate	33,087	10,981	44,068
Graduate	10,182		10,182
Total	43,269	10,981	54,250

Source: Development Services.
Counts taken on 12/2/04 for Rice alumni by class (includes deceased).

FACULTY INFORMATION (filled positions), (FALL 2004)
Full-Time Faculty: 538
Tenure/Tenure-track: 477

Part-Time Faculty: 122
Tenure/Tenure-track: 7

FTE (full-time equivalents) faculty⁸: 618

Adjunct Faculty⁹ (FALL 2004): 212

Faculty Fellows (FALL 2004): 14 (Includes 12 full-time and 2 part-time faculty)

Faculty fellows hold research positions that carry no tenure, no obligation for financial
support from the university, and no classroom teaching commitment.

Visiting Faculty (FALL 2004): 25 (Includes 10 full-time and 15 part-time faculty)

Visiting faculty hold professorial or nonprofessorial academic appointments at other institutions
and have been invited for a visiting appointment at a comparable rank at Rice.

 

TUITION AND FEES (2005-2006)

*Tuition indexed for 5 years from year of entry.
**Tuition indexed for 6 years from year of entry.

*After six semesters of full-time study in one degree program (excluding the summer semesters), continuing students enter a reduced-tuition category of $1,262 per year ($631 per semester).

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND TUITION WAIVERS GIVEN TO UNDERGRADUATES (2004-2005)

	UNDERGRADUATE
Institutional funds	$21,104,853
Government grants	3,823,536
Outside scholarships	3,279,874
Number of undergraduates receiving aid	2,376
Amount of need-based grant aid from Rice funds (included in institutional funds amount noted above)	$8,569,247
Number of undergraduates receiving need-based grant aid from Rice funds	953
Federal need-based loans given to students	$1,940,830

GIFT SUPPORT (in millions)

GIFTS BY FUND USE	FY04
Current Use (unrestricted)	$ 4.2
Current Use (restricted)*	$27.5
Plant	$ 7.6
Endowment	$15.2
Annuity & Life Income	$ 2.7
Total	$57.2

GIFTS BY SOURCE	FY04
Alumni	$12.3
Friends	$ 7.7
Corporations and Corporate Foundations	$ 9.9
Philanthropic Foundations	$13.2
Family Foundations	$ 2.4
Estates	$10.2
Other	$ 1.4
Total	$57.2

*Current Use (restricted) includes gifts from private foundations in support of research.

SPONSORED PROGRAMS RESEARCH EXPENDITURES (in millions)
BY SOURCE OF FUNDING

ENDOWMENT MARKET VALUE (as of June 30)
(in billions)

 

2004	2003	Change
$3.3	$2.94	+12.2%

STAFF INFORMATION (FALL 2004)

RECENT RANKINGS

  BOARD OF TRUSTEES

James W. Crownover '65, '66 (Chair)

J. D. Bucky Allshouse '71

D. Kent Anderson '62

Teveia Rose Barnes '75

Alfredo Brener

Vicki Whamond Bretthauer '79

Robert T. Brockman

Albert Y. Chao

Edward A. Dominguez '82

Bruce W. Dunlevie '79

James A. Elkins, III

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans '78

Douglas L. Foshee, '92 (MBA)

Karen Ostrum George '77, '78

Susanne Morris Glasscock '62

Carl E. Isgren '61

K. Terry Koonce '60, '63

Carl E. Isgren, '61

Michael R. Lynch '73

Steven L. Miller

M. Kenneth Oshman, '62, '63

Marc Shapiro

William N. Sick '57, '58

L. E. Simmons

ACADEMIC SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS
School of Architecture
George R. Brown School of Engineering
   Bioengineering
   Chemical Engineering
   Civil and Environmental Engineering
   Computational and Applied Mathematics
   Computer Science
   Electrical and Computer Engineering
   Mechanical Engineering
   Statistics
School of Humanities
   Art History
   Classical Studies
   Education
   English
   French Studies
   German and Slavic Studies
   Hispanic Studies
   History
   Kinesiology
   Linguistics
   Philosophy
   Religious Studies
   Visual Arts
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
Shepherd School of Music
Wiess School of Natural Sciences
   Biochemistry and Cell Biology
   Chemistry
   Earth Science
   Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
   Mathematics
   Physics and Astronomy
School of Social Sciences
   Anthropology
   Economics
   Political Science
   Psychology
   Sociology
School of Continuing Studies

CENTERS, CONSORTIA, INSTITUTES, RESEARCH GROUPS, AND JOURNALS

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance
Brine Chemistry Consortium
Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
Center for Chemical Processing Technology
Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems
Center for Computational Geophysics
Center for Education
Center for Excellence and Equity in Education
Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering
Center for High Performance Software Research
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Center for Multimedia Communication
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Center for Neurosciences
Center for Sustainability in the Built Environment
Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning
Center for the Study of Cultures
Center for the Study of Environment and Society
Center for the Study of Languages
Center for Urbanism
Center on the Management of Information Technology
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Connexions Project
Consortium for Processes in Porous Media
Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
Digital Signal Processing Group
Dynamical Systems Group
El Paso Corporation Finance Center
Environmental and Energy Systems Institute
Gulf Coast Computational Cancer Research
Gulf Coast Consortia
Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center
Hazardous Substance Research Center, South and Southwest
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Journal of Feminist Economics
Journal of Southern History
Mathematics Leadership Institute
Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice Advanced Visualization Lab
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
Rice Art Gallery
Rice Bioinformatics Group
Rice Building Institute
Rice Center for Organizational Effectiveness Studies
Rice Design Alliance
Rice Inversion Project Consortium
Rice Media Center
Rice Quantum Institute
Rice Space Institute
Scientia
Shell Center for Sustainability
Statistical Consulting Lab
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling
W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology

NOTES

¹ Includes all students who have fewer than 30 hours
² Includes those students pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
³ Class III students are students who already have college degrees and are taking courses for credit outside of a Rice degree program
⁴ Visiting students are students who wish to spend a semester or a year at Rice taking courses for credit to be applied toward their undergraduate degree at another school.
⁵ Professional degrees at Rice are Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees.
⁶ The Master's degree total includes the Professional Master's programs in Science and Engineering.
⁷ The number of full-time lecturers includes Professors in the Practice.
⁸ FTE includes all full-time ranks and categories, as well as deans and administrative officials who have tenure status, visiting faculty, faculty fellows, and part-time faculty. The calculation for FTE faculty includes counting the part-time faculty as one-third of full-time faculty.
⁹ The term "adjunct" indicates that the appointment, whatever the title, is an unpaid position and does not carry tenure. Thus there are adjunct lecturers, adjunct instructors, and various other adjunct faculty who provide important benefits to students by contributing to the research and instructional programs of the University in various ways, including teaching courses. All adjunct appointments may be for up to one year and may be renewed in one year increments without limitation on total service. No formal notice of non-renewal need be given.

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Last updated 22 August 2005.