Worried about Rice professors

Artemis_D
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:03:05 +0000

Hi current students and alums,
please help me with this question…

Rice is basically perfect but I’m really worried about the quality of professors and therefore the classes and education. Can you tell me about how good/bad the profs are, especially in the social sciences/ sciences department? Are there a lot of discussion classes?

What happened : During Owl Days I visited 4 classes, mostly intro ones, and saw the social sciences panel and was generally dissapointed. The profs looked brilliant at what they do, but their classes weren’t engaging at all. I fell asleep twice.

I am basically down to final 2 choices: Rice and a wonderful, prestigious, rural liberal arts college. I visited both schools and love them both. Rice is significantly cheaper with a scholarship (I can barely afford the liberal arts school), and I love the residential colleges and people and everything but I don’t want to end up at a place where the teachers suck…

Thank you ! Examples and anecdotes are appreciated