White, male Christian

ricegrad
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:46:54 +0000

You can find students with just about any viewpoint at Rice. There are small but vibrant Christian organizations on campus and there is even a modestly sized campus Republican group.

However, like most top-25 universities the student body skews predominantly liberal. You can see this if you look at voting results for Rice’s precinct, which went 93 percent Democratic in the 2016 election. For purposes of comparison, the Roper Institute reports that young people in the broader US voted 55 percent Democratic in 2016.

This suggests you wouldn’t have an especially large group of conservative compatriots at Rice. But as long as you are prepared for that, a fair number of conservatives can and have graduated from Rice over the years and perhaps you’ll eventually be among them.