Rice’s residential college system forms the heart of campus life. The colleges are small communities where students live, dine and interact with faculty mentors. Each college is a self-supporting unit ...

Our 300-acre, tree-lined campus features more than 70 major buildings with architectural elements that are uniquely Rice. There’s plenty to see and do, so plan your visit to Rice today.

President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb. Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ...

Rice offers more than 50 undergraduate majors across seven divisions of study, including architecture, business, engineering, humanities, music, natural sciences and social sciences, with multiple ...

This page is designed to be the central resource for connecting undergraduate parents and families to Rice.

The academic seal of Rice University was designed in 1912 by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who combined the main elements of the arms of 16 prominent families bearing the ...

In the 111 years since our doors opened, and well before President John F. Kennedy Jr. delivered his “we choose to go to the moon” speech at our very own Rice Stadium in 1962, Rice University has ...

Rice University is required by federal regulations to make available to both enrolled and prospective students a variety of information ranging from financial aid details to crime statistics. This ...

Left to right: Rice board chairman George R. Brown ’20, president John F. Kennedy and congressman Albert Thomas ’20 and the 60th JFK speech at Rice University anniversary and celebration Thanks to the ...

After a careful and collaborative process of strategic planning, community input and construction, Rice University unveiled its newly reimagined Academic Quadrangle during a historic reopening and ...

Rice builds community engagement through programs of educational outreach, and the natural outgrowth of the research, teaching and service of our faculty. Additionally, Rice maintains beneficial ...

Over the past century, Rice has been able to uphold its founding president’s vision of an institution “of the highest grade” while still providing a superior education to students at tuition levels ...