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

George R. Brown School of Engineering

• 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

Jesse H. Jones School of Management

• 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)

School of Humanities

• 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

Shepherd School of Music

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

School of Social Sciences

• 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

Wiess School of Natural Sciences

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