UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS, CLASS OF 2005

 
Applied 6,742
Accepted 1,580
Entered 660

Acceptance rate: 23% Yield rate: 42%
 

HIGH SCHOOL CLASS RANK (Students Entering Fall 2001 1)

 
1st in class 22%
2nd in class 7%
Top 5% (including above) 69%
Top 10% (including above) 83%
 

SAT I SCORES OF ENTERING STUDENTS (Fall 2001)

 

25th Percentile 75th Percentile

Verbal 650 750
Math 670 770

Composite 1320 1490
 

TOTAL NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS (Fall 2001 )

 
Rice Sponsored 356
National Merit Sponsored 67
Corporate Sponsored 102
Total 525
 

ENROLLMENT (Fall 2001 )

Classification Men Women
Unidentified Totals

Undergraduate 1,407 1,292   1 2,700
Graduate 1007 577   55 1,639
Professional* 13 15     28

Totals2 2,427 1,884 56 4,367

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 2001 )

Enrollment by Major

Undergraduate1 Graduate

Administration N/A 0% 410 25.0%
Architecture 118 4.3% 73 4.5%
Engineering 753 27.6% 428 26.1%
Humanities 529 19.4% 144 8.8%
Music 114 4.2% 161 9.8%
Natural Sciences 572 21.0% 277 16.9%
Social Sciences 612 22.4% 129 7.9%
Interdisciplinary 30 1.1% 17 1.0%

Totals 2,728 100.0% 1,639 100.0%

 

Ethnic Enrollment

Undergraduate* Graduate

African American 183 7.2% 39 3.7%
Asian American 347 13.7% 74 6.9%
Hispanic 266 10.5% 52 4.9%
Native American 15 0.6% 4 0.4%
White/Not reported 1,724 68.0% 898 84.2%

Totals by ethnicity 2,535 100.0% 1,067 100.0%
International2 193 7.1% 572 34.9%
Domestic 2,522 92.4% 1,048 63.9%
Not Designated 13 0.5% 19 1.2%

Totals 2,728 100.0% 1,639 100.0%
*Includes professional students

1 Includes intended and declared
2 Ethnicity not recorded


GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN3 (Fall 2001)

 

Undergrads Graduates Professionals Totals

Texas 1,371 768 8 2,147
Other U.S. 1,124 280 19 1,423
International 192 572 1 765
Not Designated 13 19 0 32

Totals 2,700 1,639 28 4,367
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
25
Nevada
8
Alaska
5
New Hampshire
3
Arizona
20
New Jersey
40
Arkansas
15
New Mexico
37
California
142
New York
58
Colorado
32
North Carolina
22
Connecticut
28
North Dakota
5
Delaware
5
Ohio
43
Florida
86
Oklahoma
44
Georgia
68
Oregon
40
Hawaii
4
Pennsylvania
47
Idaho
5
Puerto Rico
1
Illinois
54
Rhode Island
6
Indiana
18
South Carolina
7
Iowa
14
South Dakota
3
Kansas
20
Tennessee
39
Kentucky
24
Texas
2,147
Louisiana
86
Utah
7
Maine
10
Vermont
5
Maryland
56
Virginia
57
Massachusetts
36
Washington
37
Michigan
20
Washington, D.C.
9
Minnesota
21
West Virginia
6
Mississippi
19
Wisconsin
19
Missouri
43
Wyoming
1
Montana
10
Military APO/FPOs
4
Nebraska
7
U.S. Virgin Islands
2
      -----------------------------
Total (U.S.)
3,570

International Students
4
84 countries represented

Argentina
6
Kenya
3
Armenia
3
Korea
5
Australia
11
Lebanon 2
Austria
6
Macedonia 2
Bahamas 1   Mexico
47
Bahrain 1   Morocco
1
Bangladesh
2
Netherlands
3
Barbados
2
New Zealand
2
Belarus
1
Nicaragua 2
Belgium
3
Nigeria
5
Bosnia
5
Norway
6
Brazil
9
Pakistan
5
Bulgaria
3
Panama
4
Canada
49
Paraguay 1
Chile
3
Peru 4
China
151
Philippines 4
Colombia
5
Poland
5
Costa Rica
5
Portugal
1
Cyprus
7
Romania
11
Czech Rep. 1   Russia
18
Dominican Rep. 1 Saudi Arabia 1
Ecuador 2   Scotland 2
Egypt
4
Senegal
3
El Salvador
1
Singapore
9
England
29
South Africa
3
Ethiopia
2
South Korea 34
France
11
Spain 3
Germany
16
Sri Lanka 3
Greece
9
Sweden 2
Guatemala
2
Switzerland 1
Guyana
1
Taiwan
26
Hong Kong
6
Tanzania 2
India
88
Thailand
1
Indonesia
3
Trinidad & Tobago 1
Iran
14
Turkey
20
Iraq
1
Ukraine
1
Ireland
2
United Arab Emirates
4
Israel 4 Uzbekistan 1
Italy 4 Vietnam 4
Jamaica 6   Venezuela
11
Japan
13
  West Indies 2
Jordan
1
Yugoslavia
6
Total
765
Note: 32 students did not designate their geographic origin


DEGREES AWARDED, MAY 2001

 

Undergraduate Degrees5

Bachelor of Arts/Science 491
Bachelor of Music 28
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering 41
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering 10
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 36
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering 51
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering 1
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering 31

Total 689

Graduate Degrees6

Doctor of Musical Arts 11
Doctor of Philosophy 115
Master of Architecture 17
Master of Arts/Science 54
Master of Arts in Teaching 6
Master of Business Administration 189
Master of Civil Engineering 1
Master of Chemical Engineering 2
Master of Computational and Applied Mathematics 10
Master of Computer Science 17
Master of Electrical Engineering 14
Master of Mechanical Engineering 9
Master of Music 57

Total 509

Professional Degrees7

Bachelor of Architecture 33
Bachelor of Fine Arts 1

Total 34
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 (2001-2002)

Undergraduates

2001-2002 Matriculants, Visitors, and Others $16,600
2000-2001 Matriculants 16,500
1999-2000 Matriculants 16,300
1998-1999 Matriculants 15,800
Room and Board 7,200
Fees8 534
 
Graduates

Jones School Students, 2001-2002 Matriculants $21,500
Jones School Students, 2000-2001 Matriculants $19,700
Others 17,300
Fees 335

UNDERGRADUATE FINANCIAL AID (2001-2002)

Total Awarded $28,311,808
Average Award $12,810
Number of Recipients 2,210

Eighty-one percent of all undergraduates received some form of financial aid.

STUDENT DISTINCTIONS (as of 2002)

1990-Present Before 19909

Beinecke Memorial Scholarship 4 1
Churchill Winners 2 2
Fulbright Scholarships 51 *
Goldwater Scholarships 12 *
Luce Scholars Program 3 *
Marshall Scholarships 5 4
Mellon Fellowships 11 4
National Defense Science and Engineering
    Graduate Fellowship
10 *
National Science Foundation Scholarships 216 *
Rhodes Scholarships 3 7
Truman Scholarships 4 *
Udall Foundation 3 *
Watson Fellowships 22 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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