Rice has 683 full-time and 196 part-time faculty members as of fall 2018. They teach and conduct research in Rice's eight academic schools: School of Architecture, Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, George R. Brown School of Engineering, School of Humanities, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The Shepherd School of Music, Wiess School of Natural Sciences and School of Social Sciences.
Because of highly productive faculty, Rice ranks among the top 10 percent of institutions* based on citations per faculty.
*Based on Academic Analytics citations per doctoral faculty metric for U.S. institutions that grant doctoral degrees as of November 2016 (AAD2016 - Academic Analytics Data release 2016).
