Fall 2020

• Size: 4,052 undergraduate and 3,484 graduate degree-seeking students
    
• Selectivity: 24 applicants for each place in the freshman class
    
• Faculty: 698 full-time and 197 part-time instructional faculty
  • 97 percent of our full-time instructional faculty have a doctorate or terminal degree in their field
• A focus on teaching: An undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of just under 6 to 1
  • a median undergraduate class size of 14
• Research excellence: Approximately $145 million in annual externally funded research expenditures during the 2019-20  academic year
  • Rice encourages engagement of undergraduate and graduate students in the creation of new knowledge and technology  
• Residential college system: 11 close-knit and diverse communities

Information on this page is updated late in the fall semester.