unitid 227757 · Houston, TX · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Rice University
Private university in Houston, Texas, US
- founded
- 1891
- enrollment 2023
- 9,185
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- rice.edu
- motto
- “Letters, Science, Art”
William Marsh Rice University, also known as Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, it spans 300 acres. The university consists of eight constituent schools in the fields of architecture, business, continuing studies, engineering, humanities, music, natural sciences, and social sciences. wikipedia rev 1362546744 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
8%
2nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
4,776
92nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
17%
undergrads on Pell grants
15th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
95%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$79,788
91st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$13,370
after aid, aided students
16th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$89,718
after entry, Title IV students
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$11,000
4th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $5,827 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $65,041
- First-generation students
- 14%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $64,144
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 8.2× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 631 | — | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 281 | — | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 164 | $213,603 | $12,381 |
| Economics. | 88 | $104,828 | $11,289 |
| Biology, General. | 70 | — | — |
| Psychology, General. | 66 | $67,648 | $12,505 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 65 | $105,734 | $15,375 |
| Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences. | 57 | — | — |
| Music. | 55 | $36,730 | — |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 53 | $71,586 | $10,000 |
| Mathematics. | 47 | — | — |
| Neurobiology and Neurosciences. | 45 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,124 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (942) · basketball player (503) · university teacher (263) · mathematician (118) · American football player (81) · computer scientist (75) · physicist (59) · writer (52)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Robert Wilson Physics 1978
- Robert Curl Chemistry 1996
- Louis E. Brus Chemistry 2023
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Robert Wilson
82 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Howard Hughes
76 wikis · Public domain
Joyce Carol Oates
61 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Robert Curl
59 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Maryana Iskander
54 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Louis E. Brus
46 wikis · Copyrighted free use
Peggy Whitson
44 wikis · Public domain
Annise Parker
38 wikis · Public domain
Dennis Sullivan
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Candace Bushnell
35 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Alberto Gonzales
34 wikis · Public domain
Shannon Walker
34 wikis · Public domain
Janice E. Voss
32 wikis · Public domain
Jiankui He
32 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Larry McMurtry
31 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362546744), CC BY-SA 4.0.