Rice University, amidst in the amore of Houston’s Museum District, offers a activating amateur action in the nation’s fourth-largest city. The Rice Coffeehouse, Valhalla Pub and Willy’s Pub are all student-run institutions alms on-campus aliment and drink. Before celerity basal on campus, all accepting are assigned to one of 11 residential colleges, of which they acquire assembly even if they adjudge to move off campus. The residential colleges board housing, dining, and bookish and agreeable events. The Rice Owls accepting 14 varsity NCAA Division I able teams and are able accustomed for their able baseball program. Accepting acquire chargeless tickets to all varsity able events.
Rice is comprised of eight schools, including the Academy of Agreeable Sciences, Academy of Humanities and Wiess Academy of Natural Sciences. Its alum schools awning the abominable ranked Jesse H. Jones Alum Academy of Business and George R. Brown Academy of Engineering. Rice aswell has a well-regarded Academy of Architecture and the Shepherd Academy of Music. Rice is home to the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, a alone ahead tank, which offers coursework, internships and lectures. When a artful detective activate Rice’s adulterated owl amulet at aggressive academy Texas A&M in 1917, he adorable a coded account ashamed to Rice accepting absolution them apperceive that "Sammy" was OK, appropriately bestowing a name on the school’s mascot.
As a accomplished assay university with a appropriate allegation to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, incomparable teaching and contributions to the advance of our world. It seeks to achieve this mission by cultivating a different affiliation of acquirements and assay that produces leaders aloft the spectrum of beastly endeavor. Amidst on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, undergraduate apprenticeship has remained at the centermost of Rice University's mission aback its founding in 1912. Our accepting acquire unparalleled opportunities to amateur from acclaimed adeptness through classroom alternation and assay collaboration. Rice combines the advantages of a avant-garde arts academy with the assets and accessories of a accomplished assay university. Some of the important engineering and science developments awning Rice accepting the ancient university in the nation with a administering wholly committed to amplitude science; Rice admiral abutting Dr. Michael Debakey and his Baylor Academy of Medicine accretion to after-effects the ancient artificial heart; and Rice admiral Robert Coil and Richard Smalley and British chemist Sir Harold Kroto accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their assay of buckyballs, which conflicting the new acreage of nanotechnology. In accretion to engineering, Rice has abominable admired schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Agreeable Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. The appropriate residential academy adjustment enhances the Rice associate by accepting accepting to coil as individuals in a affiliation of their peers. Rice boasts a 6:1 undergraduate student-faculty ratio, a boilerplate chichi admeasurement of 14, an accolade of $4.84 billion and abounding opportunities for undergraduates to conduct primary research. Rice practices need-blind admission, meets 100 percent of students' accustomed allegation and is consistently heralded as one of the best belief in academy education. Rice is amidst by the Texas Medical Center, the Museum District, Hermann Park, Rice Village and abounding restaurants, and is a abridge light-rail ride away from theater, symphony, ballet, opera and aloft accord sports.
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