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 STUDENT INFORMATION (FALL 2003)

ENROLLMENT	FALL '03	%
Headcount Totals	4,959	100.00
Undergraduate Totals	2,822	56.90
Freshman1	621	22.00
Sophomore	733	26.00
Junior	686	24.30
Senior	782	27.70
Fifth Year Students2	35	0.70
Class III	18	0.36
Visiting Students	136	2.74
Graduate Totals	1,948	39.30

GRADUATE ENROLLMENT (FALL 2003)

School
Architecture	89	4.60%
Engineering	484	24.84%
Humanities	158	8.11%
Interdisciplinary	34	1.74%
Management	549	28.20%
Music	183	9.40%
Natural Sciences	332	17.00%
Social Sciences	119	6.11%
Totals*	1,948	100.00%

 

ETHNICITY
Native American	18	0.40%
Asian-American	547	11.00%
African-American	225	4.50%
Hispanic-American	408	8.30%
Multi-Racial	114	2.30%
White (incl. unknown)	2,523	50.90%
International	629	12.70%
Unclassified	495	10.00%

ADMISSION INFORMATION (FALL 2003)

UNDERGRADUATE	FALL '03
Applied	7,501
Accepted	1,821
Entered	716

2003 Acceptance rate: 24%  Yield rate: 39 %

 

GRADUATE DATA (October 1, 2003)
School	Applied	Accepted	Entered
George R. Brown School of Engineering	2,293	242	104
School of Architecture	349	61	28
School of Humanities	327	60	38
Jones School of Management	758	295	165
School of Social Sciences	514	32	21
Shepherd School of Music	484	88	66
Wiess School of Natural Sciences	1323	186	95
Total	6,048	964	517

2003 Acceptance rate: 16% Yield rate: 54%

DEGREES AWARDED (MAY 2003)

	NUMBER
Undergraduate	708
Professional3	18
Graduate	537
Master's	432
Ph.D.'s	105
Total	1,263

ENDOWMENT INFORMATION (as of June 30, 2003)
The university's endowment $2.94 billion.

ALUMNI INFORMATION (FALL 2003)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION	NUMBER	%
Houston	12,714	29.18
Other Texas	7,355	16.88
Other U.S.	18,143	41.64
International	1,376	3.15
Unknown	3,987	9.15
Totals	43,575	100.00
Deceased	9,219

FACULTY INFORMATION (FALL 2003)

	FULL-TIME	PART-TIME
Professor	243	7
Associate Professor	105	8
Assistant Professor	128	0
Instructor & Lecturer	53	93
Artist/Teacher	4	5
Totals	533	113
Faculty fellows	17	2
Visiting Faculty	14	15
Tenure/tenure track faculty	89%	(of all f/t faculty)
FTE (full-time equivalents) faculty4	618
Adjunct (neither full-time or part-time)	209

Faculty Books Published 2002:                                                            239
Faculty Journal Articles Published 2002:                                            1,199
Faculty with Ph.D./Terminal Degrees in Field:                                       96%

TUITION AND FEES (2003-2004)

	UNDERGRADUATE	GRADUATE*
Tuition (entering/visitors)	$18,850	$19,700
2002-03 matriculants	17,950	N/A
2001-02 matriculants	17,250	N/A
2000-01 matriculants	17,150	N/A
Room and Board	8,018	N/A
Fees	820	506

*Tuition for 2003-2004 for the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management is
$28,000;   fees for 2003-2004 are $1,176. 

FINANCIAL AID (2003-2004)

	UNDERGRADUATE
Total Awarded	$35,368,132
Average Award (from all sources)	$14,861
Number of Recipients	2,340

SUPPORT (IN MILLIONS)

GIFTS BY FUND USE	FY03
Current Use (undesignated)	$  4.4
Current Use (designated)	$21.8
Plant	$11.7
Endowment	$18.7
Annuity & Life Income	$  1.2
Totals	$57.8

GIFTS BY SOURCE	FY03
Alumni	$12.1
Friends	$  5.0
Corps and Corp Foundations	$ 9.7
Philanthropic Foundations	$13.1
Family Foundations	$5.7
Estates	$12.0
Other	$ 0 .2
Totals	$57.8

RECENT RANKINGS

Undergraduate Education

"Rice is the perfect American university," Kaplan Unofficial, Unbaised Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges, 2004

"Best Buys of 2004," Fisk Guide to Colleges, 2004

"Best academic bang for your buck," Princeton Review, 2003

2nd in the 100 best values among the nation's 1,300 private universities, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, 2004

1st among U.S. universities, percentage of National Merit Scholars in entering classes since 1990, averaging 32.5 percent

1st (tied with Notre Dame) in NCAA Division IA, graduation rate of athletes who complete their eligibility, 99 percent, NCAA, 2003

1st in Houston, Top 100 in U.S., America's 100 Most Prestigious Boards of Trustees of Nonprofit Institutions, Worth, most recent ranking (2003)

1st in U.S., The 50 Coolest Colleges, Seventeen, 2002

2nd, in nation in recruiting and retaining Hispanic students, Hispanic magazine, 2004

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

Top ten, Best Values: National Universities-Doctoral, U.S. News & World Report, 2004

School of Architecture

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

George R. Brown School of Engineering

Top Ten, best overall undergraduate engineering program of private universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2004

Jesse H. Jones School of Management

1st in U.S., 6th in the world, Career Progress, Finanical Times, 2003

1st in U.S., Graduates Employed at 3 Months, U.S. News & Wolrld Report, 2003 2nd in U.S., Alumni Aims Achieved, Financial Times, 2003

4th in U.S., 9th in the world, Percentage of Women Faculty, Financial Times, 2003

7th in U.S., Salary Today, Financial Times, 2003

Top Ten in U.S., Percentage of Women Students, Financial Times, 2003

Top Ten in world, Percentage of Women Students, The Economist, 2003

Top Ten in world, Finance Program, Financial Times, 2003

Top Ten in world, Entrepreneurship, Financial Times, 2003

"Hidden Gem," Guide to Top Business Schools, Wall Street Journal, 2003

1st in U.S., 2nd in world, Finance program, The Economist, 2002

2nd in U.S., Marketing Program, The Economist, 2002

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

3rd in U.S., 4th in world, Faculty Quality, The Economist, 2002

4th in U.S., Supportive of Women and Minorities, The Economist, 2002

Shepherd School of Music

One of only eight music schools selected by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for its prestigious Conservatory Project

  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

Edward A. Dominguez '82

Bruce W. Dunlevie '79

James A. Elkins, III

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans '78

Karen Ostrum George '77, '78

Susanne Morris Glasscock '62

K. Terry Koonce '60, '63

Cindy J. Lindsay '73

Michael R. Lynch '73

Robert R. Maxfield '63, '64

Burton J. McMurtry '56, '57

Steven L. Miller

W. Bernard Pieper '53

Karen Hess Rogers '68

Marc Shapiro

William N. Sick '57, '58

L. E. Simmons

RICE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH EXPENDITURES

TOTALS	FY 03	FY 02	% CHG
Engineering	27,820,000	23,400,000	+18.8%
Humanities	591,586	398,492	+48.5%
Natural Sciences	25,091,419	22,211,848	+13.0%
Social Sciences	1,692,949	1,715,868	-1.3%
Other	4,976,164	4,633,615	+7.4%
Totals	$60,172,118	$52,359,823	+14.9%

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 Computational Finance and Economic Systems
   Center for Education
   Center for Excellence and Equity in 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 on the Management of Information Technology
   Computer and Information Technology Institute
        Center for Chemical Processing Technology
        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
        Dynamical Systems Group
        Rice Bioinformatics Group
        Statistical Consulting Lab
   Connexions Project
   Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
   Digital Signal Processing Group
   Environmental and Energy 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
   The Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling

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 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

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 13 February 2004.