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 STUDENT INFORMATION (FALL 1999)

ENROLLMENT	FALL '99	%
Headcount Totals	4,274	100.00
Undergrad. Totals	2,748	64.29
Freshman1	808	29.01
Sophomore	553	19.85
Junior	655	23.52
Senior	732	26.28
Fifth Year Students2	37	0.87
Graduate Totals	1,489	34.84

GRADUATE ENROLLMENT (FALL 1999)

School
Architecture	56	3.76%
Engineering	345	23.17%
Humanities	153	10.28%
Management	381	25.59%
Music	175	11.75%
Natural Sciences	260	17.46%
Social Sciences	119	7.99%
Totals	1,489	100.00%

ETHNICITY
Native American	24	0.56
Asian-American	481	11.25
African-American	224	5.24
Hispanic-American	325	7.60
Multi-Racial	N/A	N/A
White (incl. unknown)	2710	63.41
International	510	11.93

GENDER  (ALL STUDENTS)
Male	2412	56.43
Female	1846	43.20
Gender not designated	16	0.37

ADMISSION INFORMATION (FALL 1999)

UNDERGRADUATE	FALL '99
Applied	5,740
Accepted	1,595
Entered	675

1999 Acceptance rate: 25.78%  Yield rate: 43.95%

DEGREES AWARDED (MAY 1999)

	NUMBER
Undergraduate (667 students)	702
Professional (18 students)	18
Graduate ( 461 students)	466
Master's	346
Ph.D.'s	120
Total ( 1,140 students)	1,186

ENDOWMENT INFORMATION (as of June 30, 1999)
The university's endowment $2.9 billion.

ALUMNI INFORMATION (FALL 1999)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION	NUMBER	%
Houston	11847	29.43
Other Texas	6806	16.91
Other U.S.	16233	40.32
International	1168	2.90
Unknown	4202	10.44
Totals	40256	100.00
Deceased	8099

FACULTY INFORMATION (OCTOBER 1, 1999)

	FULL-TIME	PART-TIME
Professor	249	7
Associate Professor	101	11
Assistant Professor	89	0
Instructor & Lecturer	34	117
Artist/Teacher	3	5
Totals	476	140
Faculty fellows	19
Visiting Faculty	5	4
Tenure/tenure track faculty	92%	(of all f/t faculty)
FTE (full-time equivalents) faculty3	560
Adjunct (neither full--time or part-time)	167

Faculty Books Published 1999:                                                                96
Faculty Journal Articles Published 1999:                                              1,236
Faculty with Ph.D./Terminal Degrees in Field:                                        98%

TUITION AND FEES (1999-2000)

	UNDERGRADUATE	GRADUATE
Tuition (entering/visitors)	$15,350	$16,100
1998-99 matriculants	14,900	N/A
1997-98 matriculants	14,350	N/A
1996-97 matriculants	13,650	N/A
Room and Board (approximate)	6,600	N/A
Fees (approximate)	446	305

FINANCIAL AID (1999-2000)

	UNDERGRADUATE
Total Awarded	$30,100,3184
Average Award (from all sources)	$13,941
Number of Recipients	2,159

SUPPORT (IN MILLIONS)

GIFTS BY FUND USE	FY99
Current Use (undesignated)	$  4.9
Current Use (designated)	$15.2
Plant	$16.2
Endowment	$37.8
Annuity & Life Income	$  4.3
Totals	$78.4

GIFTS BY SOURCE	FY99
Alumni	24.0%
Friends	11.0%
Corps and Corp Foundations	8.0%
Philanthropic Foundations	39.0%
Estates	19.0%
Totals	100.0%

RECENT RANKINGS
1st, least debt per graduate (for private universities), US News & World Report
1st, best college for the value (for private universities), Kiplinger's Personal Finance
4th, 1998 Guide to the Top 25 Colleges for Hispanics
5th, best college value in nation, US News & World Report
14th, quality ranking, US News & World Report

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

E. William Barnett '55 (Chair)

J. D. Bucky Allshouse '71

D. Kent Anderson '62

James A. Baker, III

Teveia Rose Barnes '75

Raymond D. Brochstein '55

James W. Crownover '65

Janice Doty '60

James A. Elkins, III

Lee Hage Jamail

Albert N. Kidd '64

Michael R. Lynch '73

Frederick R. Lummis, Jr. '53

Robert R. Maxfield '63

Burton J. McMurtry '56

Robert C. McNair

Bob Parks '73

W. Bernard Pieper '53

Harry M. Reasoner '60

William N. Sick '57

AWARDS POSTED/PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

TOTALS	FY 99	FY 98	% CHG
Awards Posted	$44,472,183	$37,977,896	+17.10%
Proposals Submitted	$163,534,000	$159,297,270	+2.7%
AWARD TRANSACTIONS POSTED BY SCHOOL
Engineering	23,204,081	21,033,757	+10.32%
Humanities	532,555	165,935	+220.94%
Natural Sciences	17,913,685	15,790,488	+13.45%
Social Sciences	460,010	469,204	-1.96%
Other	2,361,852	518,512	+355.51%
Totals	$44,472,183	$37,977,896	+17.10%

RESEARCH CENTERS AND INSTITUTES

Army High Performance Computing Research Center
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
Center for Applied Psychological Systems
Center for Chemical Processing Technology
Center for Computational Geophysics
Center for Education
Center for the History of Leadership Institutions
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 the Study of Cultures
Center for the Study of Institutions and Values
Center for the Study of Languages
Center for the Study of Science and Technology
Center for Sustainability in the Built Environment
Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning
Center for Urbanism
Center on the Management of Information Technology
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Energy and Environmental Systems Institute
Hazardous Substances Research Center/South and Southwest
Goethe Center for Central European Studies
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Journal of Southern History
National Center for Ground Water Research
W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology
Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
Rice Center for Organizational Effectiveness Studies
Rice Design Alliance
Rice 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 Engineering
   Computational and Applied Mathematics
   Computer Science
   Electrical and Computer Engineering
   Environmental Science and Engineering
   Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
   Statistics
School of Humanities
   Art and Art History
   Education
   English
   French Studies
   German and Slavic Studies
   Hispanic and Classical 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
   Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
   Geology and Geophysics
   Mathematics
   Physics*
   Space Physics and Astronomy*
School of Social Sciences
   Anthropology
   Economics
   Mathematical Economic Analysis
   Political Science
   Psychology
   Sociology

*The Departments of Physics and Space Physics and Astronomy will be merged into a
single Department of Physics and Space Astronomy on July 1, 2000.

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 FTE includes all full-time ranks and categories, as well as administrators with
   tenure; a formula determines FTE for part-time faculty.
⁴This calculation includes federal Direct Parent loans.  Parent loans may be
  used to replace some or all of the family's contribution to their student's
  educational costs.
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Copyright © 1999 by Rice University. A publication of the Office of
Institutional Research. Contact Jaime Garcia (jgarcia@rice.edu), Denise Brannon (dbrannon@rice.edu).

Last updated 28 April 2000.