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    Background

    Rice is a private, independent university dedicated to the "advancement of letters, science, and art." Occupying a distinctive, tree-shaded, nearly 300-acre campus only a few miles from downtown Houston, Rice attracts a diverse group of highly talented students with a range of academic studies that includes humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, architecture, music, and business management (graduate study only). The school offers students the advantage of forging close relationships with members of the faculty and the option of tailoring graduate and undergraduate studies to their specific interests. Students each year are drawn to this coed, nonsectarian university by the creative approaches it historically has taken to higher education.


    Student Information

    Source: Office of Institutional Research

    Enrollment




    Ethnicity



    Gender

    FALL 2007
    Undergraduate
    Graduate
    Professional
      # % Master % Doctoral % # %
    Male
    		1,540 52% 580 65% 807 65% 17 41%
    Female
    		1,420 48% 317 35% 440 35% 24 59%
    Total 2,960 100% 897 100% 1,247 100% 41 100%

     

    Admission Information

    UNDERGRADUATE FALL 2007
    Applied
    		 8,968
    Accepted
    		 2,251
    Entered
    		 742
    2007 Acceptance rate: 25% Yield rate: 33%  

     

    Undergraduate Class Sizes, Fall 2007

    Students Per Class 2-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 100+ Total
      240 261 101 48 38 42 11 741


    Median Class Sizes, Fall 2007 Undergraduates
    Undergraduates                                                  14


    Student-to-Faculty Ratio, Fall 2007 Undergraduates
    Student-to-Faculty Ratio, full-time equivalents 5 to 1

     

    PAID FULL-TIME FACULTY* (filled positions, Fall 2007): 611
    Tenure/Tenure Track: 500

    School Prof. Assoc. Prof Asst. Prof. Instr.and Lect.** Artists & Teachers Visiting Other Faculty Total Total Tenure Total Tenure Track
    Architecture
    		 5 3 6 2 0 0 0 16 8 6
    Engineering
    		 66 15 28 15 0 2 5 131 80 29
    Humanities
    		 52 34 27 35 1 6 0 155 86 26
    Management
    		 15 13 17 8 0 0 1 54 28 17
    Music
    		 25 5 4 0 5 0 0 39 27 7
    Natural Sciences
    		 62 21 29 12 0 2 10 136 83 29
    Social Sciences
    		 36 16 22 1 0 1 1 77 52 22
    Other
    		 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0
    Total 261 107 133 76 6 11 17 611 364 136

    *The full-time faculty figure does not include deans and administrative appointments, but does include administrative faculty whose appointment is primarily instructional.

    **The number of full-time lecturers includes professors in the practice and senior lecturers. (Professor in the Practice is a non-tenure track, non-tenure eligible faculty appointment established to fill specific and important pragmatic instructional needs of the university.)

     

    Staff Information (Fall 2007)

    Staff
    Full-time 1,739
    Part-time 225
    Total 1,964

    Endowment

    Market Value of Endowment

    Market Value of Endowment
    2007* 2006 Change
    $4.7B $4.0B +17.5%

    *as of June 30, 2007

     

    Endowment Dollars Per FTE Student

    Endowment Dollars Per FTE Student
    2007 $/per FTE Student
    $4.7B $946,785

     

    Research

    Sponsored Research and Other Sponsored Program Revenues by Funding Source

    Sources FY 2007 FY 2006 FY 2005 FY 2004 FY 2003
    Foundations
    		 $4,065,861 $3,417,116 $3,599,495 $3,651,998 $2,000,547
    Other Federal
    		 15,580,020 12,540,037 14,803,302 11,551,893 9,496,884
    NIH
    		 10,401,579 8,389,829 7,232,097 6,020,160 6,015,353
    NSF
    		 23,977,908 25,070,552 21,974,574 21,917,076 18,501,002
    Welch
    		 2,424,513 2,405,183 2,404,406 2,475,325 2,469,024
    NASA
    		 3,063,337 4,022,931 2,827,802 2,687,849 2,359,296
    Industrial
    		 1,931,928 1,471,614 1,589,881 2,295,087 1,468,094
    Pass Throughs
    		 13,027,185 12,015,952 11,672,961 12,086,093 11,395,205
    State and Local
    		 1,038,941 1,603,452 3,854,571 3,854,531 3,303,984
    Miscellaneous
    		 1,665,808 944,386 578,455 511,356 463,416
    Total $77,177,080 $71,881,052 $70,537,544 $67,051,368 $57,472,805

     

    Notes: Figures include direct expenses and facilities and administrative cost recovery and exclude amounts received by student financial services for financial aid purposes.

    Updated 5/01/2008