The campus has approximately 285 acres of level ground, planted with more than 4,000 trees. The 2.9-mile campus perimeter is enclosed by a hedge of wax leaf ligustrum and a double row of live oak trees. No public roads cross the campus.

• Link to on-line campus tour
• Link to Facilities campus map
• Link to historical campus photos

The campus includes about 50 major buildings, designed over a period of nearly a century and which are representative of the changes in style of 20th century American architecture. The university's earliest buildings were conceived by the architect Ralph Adams Cram in a revivalist style based on the medieval architecture of Southern Europe and are characterized by red tile roofs, rose-hued brick, semicircular archways, and elaborate detailing. The Boston architecture firm of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was responsible for the general plan of the campus (1910) and for the following buildings:
Lovett Hall (1912)
Will Rice College (1912)
Mechanical Laboratory (1912)
Baker College (1912, 1915)
Physics Laboratory (1914)
Hanszen College (1916)
More information about other notable Rice buildings can be found on Rice's Facilities and Engineering Campus Map website at http://dacnet.rice.edu/maps/space/