Recent Rice Rankings

Top 20 Among National Universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2008
No. 1 Best Value Among Private Colleges, Princeton Review's "America's Best-Value Colleges," 2008
New Ivies, Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide, 2007
Best Quality of Life and Friendliest Race/Class Interaction, Princeton Review, 2007
Third in Best Overall Academic Experience for Undergraduate Students, Princeton Review, 2007
Best National Universities - number 17. U.S. News & World Report, 2007
Best Value - number eight, U.S. News & World Report, 2007
Best Buys of 2005, Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2005

School of Architecture

Second in the nation for Best Undergraduate Architecture Program, Design Futures Council, 2007
Sixth in the nation, Top 10 Best Graduate Architecture Programs, Design Futures Council, 2007
Third in the nation for Best Undergraduate Architecture Program, Design Futures Council, 2006
Seventh in the nation for Best Graduate Architecture Programs, Design Futures Council, 2006

Top 20, Best Undergraduate Engineering Program among schools whose highest degree is a doctorate, U.S. News & World Report, 2007
Seventh in the nation for Top 20 Graduate Engineering Programs, Princeton Review, 2007
Top 10, Best Overall Undergraduate Engineering Program of Private Universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2005
Top 10, Best Overall Undergraduate Bioengineering Program of Private Universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2005

Best M.B.A. Program in Texas, Financial Times, 2007
Top 10 Finance Programs in the world, Financial Times, 2007
Top 30 M.B.A. Programs in the nation, Financial Times, 2007
Top 10 "Most Competitive Students," Princeton Review, 2006
Top 25 MBA programs, Wall Street Journal, 2005
Top 50 U.S. Business Schools, Forbes magazine, 2005
Top 10 "Most Competitive Students" and "Greatest Opportunity for Women", Princeton Review, 2005
Top 25 MBA programs, Hispanic Trends, 2005
Best Business School in Texas and the Southwest, Financial Times, 2004 (MBA for Executives) and 2005 (MBA)

The Department of History ranked ninth in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics
The Department of Philosophy ranked 10th in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index by Academic Analytics

One of only eight music schools selected by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for its prestigious Conservatory Project

Top 10, Best Overall Graduate Programs in Political Science, U.S. News & World Report, 2005
Top 20, Best Overall Graduate Programs in Political Science, U.S. News & World Report, 2005

Fourth in Top 10 Best Overall Nanotechnology programs, Small Times magazine, 2006