Rice has 721 full-time and 160 part-time faculty members as of fall 2019. They teach, conduct research, and manage 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 faculty metric for U.S. institutions that grant doctoral degrees (AAD2018 - Academic Analytics Data release 2018).