RICE VS OTHER T20

PrdMomto1
Mon, 18 May 2020 20:43:38 +0000

theloniusmonk:

“College sports fans know Rice as they’ve won 10 bowl championships including the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and 4 Cotton Bowls.”

This is such a misleading statement, those bowls were all in the 1940s and 50s. Very few college football fans know Rice after they left the Southwest Conference. And the Rice-Fresno State Hawaii Bowl had the lowest rating in the past 10 years. If Hawaii is not in the Hawaii Bowl, very few people, relatively speaking, watch it.

“By alumni achievements, Rice already is at the same level as the other (non-HYPSM) Ivies/equivalents.”

Another gross over-exaggeration, Rice does not have the accomplishments of Michigan or Northwestern, just to name two. Yes they’re older and bigger, and maybe that’s why they have more, but you can’t make some claim and not back it up.

Are you really saying that Rice is on the same tier as Michigan or Northwestern in journalism, media, sports, entertainment, business, government?

Maybe medicine, but UM’s healthcare systems is superb, one of the best in the world. Maybe Oil and Gas, but those are dominated by UT and A&M grads.

Take Pulitzer prizes which the OP brought up, Rice has one, NU has 38, Michigan 35. Only Harvard and Columbia have more. By your logic, Rice should be in the 30s right, since it’s journalism or writing program is the same tier of non HYPSM colleges? Well it’s not even close.

I find these arguments strange and unnecessary. It’s hard to compare numbers when you’re looking at schools of completely different sizes. Rice has about 900 faculty members for it’s 7,000 students. In addition, different schools are known for different things. Rice is particularly strong in music, architecture and STEM fields to name a few. They also have a highly rated Sports Management major - go figure. Their pre-meds end up at great medical schools. But you can’t compare medical schools themselves since Rice doesn’t have an MD program of their own. They are not ranked as high in some other areas but I would say most of the kids who choose Rice choose it for the fit. Just like many kids choose strong Liberal Arts colleges because of the unique opportunities offered based on their wants and needs. I wouldn’t suggest their education is lesser because they maybe don’t have access to as strong of an engineering program as Michigan.

OP wanted to know if Rice is considered as prestigious as other T20 schools. In my opinion, it’s ranked high for many reasons, but I guess it just depends on whether or not those reasons are important to you!