UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS, CLASS OF 2004

 
Applied 6,802
Accepted 1,583
Entered 628

Acceptance rate: 23% Yield rate: 40%
 

HIGH SCHOOL CLASS RANK (Students Entering Fall 2000 1)

 
1st in class 16%
2nd in class 9%
Top 5% (including above) 73%
Top 10% (including above) 84%
 

SAT I SCORES OF ENTERING STUDENTS (Fall 2000)

 

25th Percentile 75th Percentile

Verbal 650 750
Math 660 760

Composite 1,330 1,500
 

TOTAL NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS (Fall 2000 )

 
Rice Sponsored 391
National Merit Sponsored 47
Corporate Sponsored 120
 

ENROLLMENT (Fall 2000 )

Classification Men Women
Totals

Undergraduate 1,409 1,249   2,658
Graduate 945 568   1,513
Professional* 11 20   31

Totals2 2,365 1,837 4,202

1 Of those ranked
2 Does not include Class III Students (students taking classes for credit, but not in a specific degree program) and Visitors (students taking courses for credit to be applied toward a degree at another school)
* See footnote number 7


STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS (Fall 2000 )

Enrollment by Major

Undergraduate1 Graduate

Administration N/A 0% 381 25.2%
Architecture 120 4.5% 57 3.8%
Engineering 755 28.1% 362 23.9%
Humanities 520 19.3% 154 10.2%
Music 125 4.6% 166 11.0%
Natural Sciences 601 22.4% 250 16.5%
Social Sciences 525 19.5% 128 8.5%
Interdisciplinary 43 1.6% 15 1.0%

Totals 2,689 100.0% 1,513 100.0%

 

Ethnic Enrollment

Undergraduate* Graduate

African American 172 6.6% 33 3.2%
Asian American 414 15.8% 60 5.8%
Hispanic 267 10.2% 30 2.9%
Native American 14 0.5% 4 0.4%
White/Not reported 1,756 66.9% 915 87.8%

Totals by ethnicity 2,623 100.0% 1,042 100.0%
International2 66 2.5% 471 31.1%
Domestic 2,593 96.4% 1,005 66.4%
Not Designated 30 1.1% 37 2.4%

Totals 2,689 100.0% 1,513 100.0%
*Includes professional students

1 Includes intended and declared
2 Ethnicity not recorded


GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN3 (Fall 2000)

 

Undergrads Graduates Professionals Totals

Texas 1,438 739 9 2,186
Other U.S. 1,126 266 20 1,412
International 65 471 1 537
Not Designated 29 37 1 67

Totals 2,658 1,513 31 4,202

3 Reflects current home locations as reported by students

U.S Students
All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. military bases abroad represented

Alabama
18
Nevada
10
Alaska
5
New Hampshire
2
Arizona
17
New Jersey
43
Arkansas
16
New Mexico
35
California
137
New York
61
Colorado
32
North Carolina
19
Connecticut
26
North Dakota
5
Delaware
5
Ohio
44
Florida
71
Oklahoma
37
Georgia
67
Oregon
34
Hawaii
1
Pennsylvania
47
Idaho
2
Puerto Rico
1
Illinois
63
Rhode Island
4
Indiana
17
South Carolina
11
Iowa
10
South Dakota
3
Kansas
25
Tennessee
39
Kentucky
22
Texas
2,186
Louisiana
71
Utah
7
Maine
7
Vermont
4
Maryland
59
Virginia
58
Massachusetts
41
Washington
36
Michigan
26
Washington, D.C.
10
Minnesota
27
West Virginia
4
Mississippi
22
Wisconsin
24
Missouri
55
Wyoming
6
Montana
10
Military APO/FPOs
2
Nebraska
12
U.S. Virgin Islands
2

Total (U.S.)
3,598

International Students
4
69countries represented

Argentina
3
Jamaica
3
Armenia
1
Japan
8
Australia
7
Jordan
1
Austria
3
Kenya
1
Bangladesh
1
Korea
18
Barbados
3
Kuwait
1
Belarus
2
Mexico
20
Belgium
1
Morocco
1
Bosnia
5
Netherlands
4
Brazil
7
New Zealand
1
Bulgaria
4
Nigeria
2
Canada
37
Norway
4
Chile
2
Pakistan
2
China
131
Panama
2
Colombia
5
Philippines 2
Costa Rica
3
Poland
3
Cyprus
1
Portugal
2
Dominican Rep. 1 Romania
8
Egypt
1
Russia
16
El Salvador
1
Senegal
3
England
14
Singapore
5
Ethiopia
1
South Africa
3
France
12
Spain 2
Germany
13
Sudan 1
Greece
10
Switzerland 1
Guatemala
3
Taiwan
16
Guyana
1
Tanzania 1
Honduras
1
Thailand
2
Hong Kong
5
Turkey
15
India
73
Ukraine
2
Indonesia
3
United Arab Emirates
1
Iran
8
Uzbekistan 1
Israel
2
Vietnam 1
Italy
7
Venezuela
7
  Yugoslavia
5

Total
537
Note: 67 students did not designate their geographic origin
4 China/Hong Kong listed separately per student preference


DEGREES AWARDED, MAY 2000

 

Undergraduate Degrees (681 students )5

Bachelor of Arts 554
Bachelor of Music 22
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering 33
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering 8
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 16
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering 54
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering 3
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering 26

Total 716

Graduate Degrees (479 students6)

Doctor of Musical Arts 5
Doctor of Philosophy 110
Master of Architecture 12
Master of Arts 57
Master of Arts in Teaching 3
Master of Business Administration 187
Master of Civil Engineering 1
Master of Chemical Engineering 1
Master of Computational and Applied Mathematics 1
Master of Computer Science 9
Master of Electrical Engineering 7
Master of Mechanical Engineering 4
Master of Music 53
Master of Science 41

Total 491

Professional Degrees (22 Students)7

Bachelor of Architecture 20
Bachelor of Fine Arts 2

Total 22

5 Some students awarded more than one degree
6 Some students awarded more than one degree
7 Includes professional students, who have already earned a four-year baccalaureate degree and are currently pursuing either a bachelor of architecture or a bachelor of fine arts degree; other professional programs (such as master of accounting or nonthesis doctorates) are always officially considered graduate degrees


TUITION AND FEES (2000-2001)

Undergraduates

2000-2001 Matriculants, Visitors, and Others $15,950
1999-2000 Matriculants 15,750
1998-99 Matriculants 15,300
1997-98 Matriculants 14,750
Room and Board 6,750
Fees8 494
 
Graduates

Jones School Students, 2000-2001 Matriculants $19,700
Jones School Students, 1999-2000 Matriculants $18,500
Others 16,700
Fees 353

UNDERGRADUATE FINANCIAL AID (2000-2001)

Total Awarded $25,196,542
Average Award $11,649
Number of Recipients 2,163

Seventy-nine percent of all undergraduates received some form of financial aid.

STUDENT DISTINCTIONS (as of 2001)

1990-Present Before 19909

Beinecke Memorial Scholarship 4 1
Churchill Winners 2 2
Fulbright Scholarships 42 *
Goldwater Scholarships 11 *
Luce Scholars Program 1 *
Marshall Scholarships 4 4
Mellon Fellowships 10 4
National Defense Science and Engineering
    Graduate Fellowship
9 *
National Science Foundation Scholarships 199 *
Rhodes Scholarships 3 7
Truman Scholarships 3 *
Udall Foundation 3 *
Watson Fellowships 16 31
Whitaker Foundation Fellowships 4 *

8 Rounded to the nearest dollar
9 Some records prior to 1990 incomplete

Copyright © 2000 by Rice University.
A publication of the Office of Institutional Research. (Email: instresr@ruf.rice.edu).

Updated: Thursday, June 15, 2006


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