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SUMMARY
OVERVIEW
Rice University is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian,
private, research university dedicated to undergraduate teaching and to
graduate studies, research, and professional education in selected
disciplines. The defining characteristics of Rice are its small size, exceptionally
gifted students, low tuition, distinguished faculty, acclaimed research and
scholarship, financial stability, and its campus of uncommon beauty.
FACULTY
Rice has 452 full-time, 123 part-time, and 144 adjunct faculty as of fall 1997.
They teach and conduct research in 8 academic schools: Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Administration, Architecture, Continuing Studies,
George R. Brown School of Engineering, Humanities, Shepherd School of
Music, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. 98% of
the faculty hold Ph.D.'s or equivalent terminal degrees in their fields.
STUDENTS
The fall 1997 student body consisted of 2,714 undergraduates and
1,426 graduate and professional1
students. The male-to-female ratio
among undergraduates is approximately 5 to 4, and the student-to-faculty
ratio is 6 to 1. 61% of the students accepted for undergraduate
admission were in the top 5% of their high school class, and the middle 50% of
the entering class had composite SAT I scores between 1,350 and
1,500. 30.9% of the undergraduate population (839 students) are National
Merit Scholars. 50.1% of Rice undergraduates hail from Texas; 47.4%
come from elsewhere in the U.S.; and 2.5% are from outside the U.S.
Undergraduate tuition for 1997-98 was $13,900 for entering
freshmen, $13,200 for 1996-97 matriculants, $12,350 for 1995-96
matriculants, and $11,300 for other continuing full-time students; graduate
tuition was $14,300 ($14,400 for those in the Jones School). Students are
admitted without consideration of financial circumstances; 86.4% of
undergraduates received financial aid in 1996-97.
ALUMNI
Rice currently has 39,153 living alumni. Of the 34,631 alumni whose
locations are known, 34.1% reside in Houston, 18.8% live elsewhere in
Texas, 44.0% live elsewhere in the U.S., and 3.1% live outside the U.S.
ENDOWMENT
Rice ranked second for private, research universities after Princeton
in amount of endowment assets ($507,352) per full-time
equivalent (FTE) student (according to FY95 FTE numbers) in
19962. The
FY97 market value for Rice's endowment was $2.3 billion.
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Rice University. A publication of the
Office of Institutional Research.
(Email: instresr@ruf.rice.edu).
Last updated 10 January 1998.