What are Rice's strongest programs?

wrprice
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:36:31 +0000

Rice is traditionally strong in its science and engineering programs, though it has worked hard in the last decade to improve its offerings in the humanities – language, history, social sciences, etc. You can refer to national publications if you want to see where Rice ranks for a particular area, but a Rice education is so much more than the particular department from which you receive your degree. All of Rice’s departments will provide you with a quality education.

As for size, look… Rice is small. What are we at now? About 3,000 undergraduates or so? I’ll have to look up the numbers later. Assuming that’s true, however, 100 students in a department is 3% of the undergraduate population. Relatively speaking, that’s a healthy percentage.