At 4800 students, Rice’s enrollment is still under 5000. Their recent increase has been modest. And they’ve added an undergraduate business school during this period, thereby expanding their academic offerings rather than simply adding students to their existing departments. They’ve also added new facilities with a new building for the business school and two new residential colleges to house the additional students. So, where’s the overcrowding?
Crowded??? Their currently reported student:faculty ratio is 5.8:1. Where are you going to find anything comparable to that? Certainly not at a research university. Only 15% of their classes have ore than 40 students while 64% have fewer than 20.
I have a GS currently at Rice and a GD who graduated a year ago. Neither of them have had any complaints.