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 STUDENT INFORMATION (FALL 2002)

ENROLLMENT	FALL '02	%
Headcount Totals	4,785	100.00
Undergraduate Totals	2,740	57.26
Freshman1	634	23.14
Sophomore	688	25.11
Junior	645	23.54
Senior	773	28.21
Fifth Year Students2	31	0.65
Class III	24	0.50
Visiting Students	128	2.68
Graduate Totals	1,862	38.91

GRADUATE ENROLLMENT (FALL 2001)

School
Architecture	87	4.70%
Engineering	462	24.80%
Humanities	153	8.20%
Interdisciplinary	28	1.50%
Management	517	27.80%
Music	191	10.30%
Natural Sciences	291	15.60%
Social Sciences	133	7.10%
Totals*	1,862	100.00%

 

ETHNICITY
Native American	19	0.40%
Asian-American	485	10.10%
African-American	231	4.80%
Hispanic-American	370	7.70%
Multi-Racial	91	1.90%
White (incl. unknown)	2,454	51.30%
International	657	13.70%
Unclassified	478	10.00%

ADMISSION INFORMATION (FALL 2002)

UNDERGRADUATE	FALL '02
Applied	7,079
Accepted	1,682
Entered	700

2002 Acceptance rate: 24%  Yield rate: 42%

 

GRADUATE DATA (October 1, 2002)
School	Applied	Accepted	Entered
George R. Brown School of Engineering	2,581	280	126
School of Architecture	415	63	27
School of Humanities	275	56	36
Jones School of Management	767	300	188
School of Social Sciences	476	40	28
Shepherd School of Music	453	108	78
Wiess School of Natural Sciences	1,156	193	81
Total	6,123	1,040	564

2002 Acceptance rate: 17% Yield rate: 54%

DEGREES AWARDED (MAY 2002)

	NUMBER
Undergraduate	745
Professional3	19
Graduate	494
Master's	388
Ph.D.'s	106
Total	1,258

ENDOWMENT INFORMATION (as of June 30, 2002)
The university's endowment $2.94 billion.

ALUMNI INFORMATION (FALL 2002)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION	NUMBER	%
Houston	12,465	29.12
Other Texas	7,241	16.92
Other U.S.	17,723	41.40
International	1,352	3.16
Unknown	4,025	9.40
Totals	42,806	100.00
Deceased	8,853

FACULTY INFORMATION (FALL 2002)

	FULL-TIME	PART-TIME
Professor	241	4
Associate Professor	100	11
Assistant Professor	114	1
Instructor & Lecturer	52	123
Artist/Teacher	4	5
Totals	511	127
Faculty fellows	18	2
Visiting Faculty	18	12
Tenure/tenure track faculty	89%	(of all f/t faculty)
FTE (full-time equivalents) faculty4	605
Adjunct (neither full-time or part-time)	226

Faculty Books Published 2001:                                                            107
Faculty Journal Articles Published 2001:                                            1,368
Faculty with Ph.D./Terminal Degrees in Field:                                        96%

TUITION AND FEES (2002-2003)

	UNDERGRADUATE	GRADUATE*
Tuition (entering/visitors)	$17,550	$18,500
2001-02 matriculants	16,850	N/A
2000-01 matriculants	16,750	N/A
1999-00 matriculants	16,550	N/A
Room and Board	7,590	N/A
Fees	767	463

*Tuition for 2002-2003 for the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management is $23,250;
  fees for 2002-2003 are $1,648. 

FINANCIAL AID (2002-2003)

	UNDERGRADUATE
Total Awarded	$32,000,969
Average Award (from all sources)	$14,197
Number of Recipients	2,254

SUPPORT (IN MILLIONS)

GIFTS BY FUND USE	FY02
Current Use (undesignated)	$  4,398
Current Use (designated)	$16,707
Plant	$ 9,300
Endowment	$25,110
Annuity & Life Income	$  3,981
Totals	$59,496

GIFTS BY SOURCE	FY02
Alumni	$16,818
Friends	$  8,524
Corps and Corp Foundations	$12,975
Philanthropic Foundations	$12,813
Estates	$ 7,799
Other	$    567
Totals	$59,496

RECENT RANKINGS

Undergraduate Education

"Best Buy," Fisk Guide to Colleges, 2003

Top 1%, scientific research impact of all institutions worldwide in 12 fields, Institute for Scientific Information's Essential Science Indicators, 2001

1st, in graduating varsity athletes, USA/NCAA poll, 2002

1st, best value among the nation's 1,600 private universities, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, 1999

1st, since 1990 in percentage of National Merit Scholars in entering classes among American Universities, averaging 32.5 percent.

2nd, (tied with Harvard) best college value among national universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2002

2nd, in nation in recruiting and retaining Hispanic students, Hispanic magazine, 2002

School of Architecture

1st, in the South, 4th in the U.S., Almanac of Architecture & Design, 2001

George R. Brown School of Engineering

Top Ten, best overall undergraduate engineering program of private universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2002

Jesse H. Jones School of Management

1st, best finance program in the U.S., 2nd in the world, The Economist, 2002 2nd, best marketing program in the U.S., The Economist, 2002

2nd, best economics program (tied with Harvard) in the U.S., The Economist, 2002

3rd, faculty quality in the U.S., 4th in the world, The Economist, 2002

4th, in the U.S., supportive of women and minorities, The Economist, 2002

4th, best finance program in the world, Financial Times, 2001

  BOARD OF TRUSTEES

E. William Barnett '55 (Chair)

J. D. Bucky Allshouse '71

D. Kent Anderson '62

Teveia Rose Barnes '75

Alfredo Brener

Robert T. Brockman

Albert Y. Chao

James W. Crownover '65, '66

Bruce W. Dunlevie '79

James A. Elkins, III

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans '78

Karen Ostrum George '77, '78

K. Terry Koonce '60, '63

Cindy J. Lindsay '73

Frederick R. Lummis, Jr. '53

Michael R. Lynch '73

Robert R. Maxfield '63, '64

Burton J. McMurtry '56, '57

Steven L. Miller

Bob Parks '73

W. Bernard Pieper '53

Karen Hess Rogers '68

Marc Shapiro

William N. Sick '57, '58

L. E. Simmons

RICE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH EXPENDITURES

TOTALS	FY 02	FY 01	% CHG
Engineering	19,552,602	17,682,909	+10.57%
Humanities	398,492	515,894	-22.76%
Natural Sciences	21,224,739	19,763,991	+7.39%
Social Sciences	1,715,868	1,339,320	+28.11%
Other	4,633,614	3,747,165	+23.66%
Totals	$47,525,315	$43,049,279	+10.40%

CENTERS, CONSORTIA, INSTITUTES, AND RESEARCH GROUPS

   James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
   Center for Applied Psychological Systems
   Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
   Center for Education
   Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering
   Center for the History of Leadership Institutions
   Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
   Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
   Center for Neurosciences
   Center for the Study of Cultures
   Center for the Study of Environment and Society
   Center for the Study of Languages
   Center for Sustainability in the Built Environment
   Center for Urbanism
   Center on the Management of Information Technology
   Computer and Information Technology Institute
        Center for Chemical Processing Technology
        Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems
        Center for Computational Geophysics
        Center for High Performance Software Research
        Center for Multimedia Communication
        Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning
        The Rice Inversion Project Consortium
        Computer Systems Lab
        Dynamical Systems Group
        Rice Bioinformatics Group
        Statistical Consulting Lab
   Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
   Digital Signal Processing Group
   Energy and Environmental Systems Institute
        Brine Chemistry Consortium
        Consortium for Processes in Porous Media
        Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research Center
        Hazardous Substance Research Center/South and Southwest
   Shell Center for Sustainability
   Goethe Center for Central European Studies
   Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC)
   Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
   NASA URETI (University Research, Engineering and Technology Institute) for Intelligent Material
   Journal of Feminist Economics
   Journal of Southern History
   W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology
   Papers of Jefferson Davis
   Rice Advanced Visualization Lab
   Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
   Rice Center for Organizational Effectiveness Studies
   Rice Design Alliance
   Rice University Media Center
   Rice Quantum Institute
   Rice Space Institute
   Rice University Art Gallery
   Scientia
   Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
   

ACADEMIC SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS
School of Architecture
School of Continuing Studies
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 and Materials Science
   Statistics
School of Humanities
   Art and Art History
   Classical Studies
   Education
   English
   French Studies
   German and Slavic Studies
   Hispanic Studies
   History
   Kinesiology
   Linguistics
   Philosophy
   Religious Studies
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

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 Professional degrees at Rice are Bachelor of Architecture or Bachelor of
   Fine Arts degrees.
4 FTE includes all full-time ranks and categories, as well as administrators with
   tenure; a formula determines FTE for part-time faculty.

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Last updated 3 February 2003.