Rice University is a comprehensive research university in Houston, Texas. Rice produces Houston’s next generation of leaders and advances tomorrow’s thinking.

Rice offers more than 50 undergraduate majors across seven divisions of study, including architecture, engineering, business, humanities, music, natural sciences and social sciences.

Apr 21, 2025 · The Rice University Board of Trustees has approved an ambitious plan to increase access to a Rice education by growing the university’s student body by fall 2028, marking an …

Nov 6, 2025 · Rice has unveiled the Gateway Project, a transformative initiative on university-owned land in Rice Village that will create a seamless, pedestrian-friendly corridor linking the campus to the …

Aug 19, 2025 · Amid unprecedented enrollment growth, Rice will open its 12th residential college, the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao College — referred to as Chao College — made possible by a …

6 days ago · Rice University’s Friends of Fondren Library gathered the campus community Jan. 29 to celebrate a year of creative and scholarly achievement, honoring faculty, staff, alumni and supporters …

Feb 14, 2025 · “With its doors now officially open, the Rice Nexus cements its role as the home for Rice founders within the Ion District, integrating AI expertise to fuel the next wave of breakthrough …

Sep 11, 2025 · Today, Rice University celebrated the grand opening of Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall, a 94,000-square-foot facility designed to serve as the new home of the Department of Art.

Jan 14, 2026 · A study published in Nature Physics Jan. 14, co-led by Rice University’s Qimiao Si, brings together quantum criticality, where electrons fluctuate between different phases, and …

Feb 18, 2025 · Rice researchers found that a carbon material known as monolayer amorphous carbon is eight times tougher than graphene.