Rice University

Rice University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1912. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 3,965, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 285 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Rice University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 19. Its charge and fees are $40,566 (2014-15).

Rice University, amid in the affection of Houston’s Museum District, offers a activating apprentice activity 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 dispatch bottom on campus, all acceptance are assigned to one of 11 residential colleges, of which they abide associates even if they adjudge to move off campus. The residential colleges accommodate housing, dining, and bookish and amusing events. The Rice Owls avowal 14 varsity NCAA Division I able-bodied teams and are able-bodied accepted for their able baseball program. Acceptance accept chargeless tickets to all varsity able-bodied events.

Rice is comprised of eight schools, including the Academy of Amusing Sciences, Academy of Humanities and Wiess Academy of Natural Sciences. Its alum schools cover the awful 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 detached anticipate tank, which offers coursework, internships and lectures. When a clandestine detective begin Rice’s baseborn owl amulet at battling academy Texas A&M in 1917, he beatific a coded bulletin aback to Rice acceptance absolution them apperceive that "Sammy" was OK, appropriately bestowing a name on the school’s mascot.