Value68/100
Excellent evidence88/100 profile coverage
Predominantly direct. Missing lenses stay blank and do not become low scores.
Admissions100
Value100
Career65
Experience73
Location100
Scorecard
A balanced read, not one ranking.
Academic96
Career78
Evidence coverage88
About the location
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Engineering marketHouston#1 historical alumni region · 395 aggregate matches
- Internships
- 7000
- Entry level
- 7000
- Early / mid
- 7000
Get to know Houston
Six starting points for exploring the city and nearby region.
Green space and walking near the Museum District.
A neighbourhood for museums, galleries and an afternoon of exploring.
An outdoor venue for music, dance and theatre.
A major wildlife attraction beside Hermann Park.
Waterfront landscapes beyond the campus neighbourhood.
Space exploration exhibits near NASA Johnson Space Center, outside central Houston.
Life beyond the classroom
A feel for Houston.
The seasons, at a glance
Hot summers, mild winter nights.
Average daily highs & lows · °C · 1991–2020
Average highAverage low
Monthly breakdown & weather definitions
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Wet days | Snowy days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 17.7° | 6.5° | 10.0 | 0.0 |
| Feb | 19.9° | 8.7° | 8.8 | 0.0 |
| Mar | 23.3° | 12.0° | 8.8 | 0.0 |
| Apr | 26.7° | 15.4° | 7.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 30.5° | 19.9° | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| Jun | 33.5° | 23.2° | 10.0 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 34.7° | 24.3° | 9.1 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 34.9° | 24.1° | 8.5 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 32.4° | 21.4° | 8.4 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 28.2° | 16.1° | 7.7 | 0.0 |
| Nov | 22.6° | 10.8° | 7.6 | 0.0 |
| Dec | 18.5° | 7.6° | 9.6 | 0.1 |
Wet day: at least 0.01 inches (0.254 mm) of precipitation, including melted snow. This is not a rain-only count. Snowy day: at least 0.1 inches (2.54 mm) of new snowfall, not existing snow cover. Annual counts sum monthly average day counts; rare events may round to zero.
Highs and lows are averages of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, not record extremes. These are published 30-year climate normals, not a forecast. Recent years can be warmer or otherwise differ. Season labels summarise June–August highs and December–February lows.
Weather station: HOUSTON INTERCONT AP, TX US, approximately 29.4 km from Rice University. Nearby station conditions can differ from campus, particularly with elevation or coastal differences. Retrieved 2026-09-07.
Weather data: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals · U.S. public-domain government data. Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Temperature units converted and monthly day-count normals summed by Univised; no NOAA endorsement implied.
Make the city yours
What’s around town?
A sample of mapped places within 5 km of Rice University. Browse by your kind of afternoon—or night out.
Theatre & performance
11 mapped- Lucian and Nancy Morrison Theater
- Miller Outdoor Theatre
- Brown Auditorium Theater
8 more mapped places
- Main Street Theater
- Magic Island
- Peggy Park Amphitheater
- The Ensemble Theatre
- MATCH
- Heinen Theatre
- Blessings Outdoor Theater
- Stages Theatre
Cinema
3 mapped- Wortham Giant Screen Theatre
- River Oaks Theater
- Regal Edwards Greenway Grand Palace ScreenX & RPX
Museums & galleries
32 mapped- Destination Mound Town
- Pioneer Memorial Log House Museum
- Houston Museum of Natural Science
29 more mapped places
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Caroline Weiss Law Building
- Audrey Jones Beck Building
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation
- Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
- John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science
- Children's Museum of Houston
- Holocaust Museum Houston
- Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall
- Menil Drawing Institute
- Cy Twombly Gallery
- Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum
- Menil Collection
- Rothko Chapel
- Houston Center for Photography
- Art of the World Gallery
- Inman Gallery
- The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
- Project Row Houses
- Houston Fire Museum
- Museum of Printing History
- Gallery 1208
- Freedman's Town Visitor Center
- Gallery 1206
- Houston Freedman's Town
- Rienzi
- Rutherford B. H. Yates Museum
- Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Nightlife
12 mapped- The Big Easy
- Numbers Night Club
- South Beach
9 more mapped places
- Blur Bar
- Club 2.0
- Warehouse Live
- Rich's Houston
- Barbarella
- Eleven Eleven
- Papi's
- Spire Night Club
- Grooves of Houston
Stadiums & arenas
7 mapped- Reckling Park
- Rice University Track and Soccer Stadium
- Rice Stadium
4 more mapped places
- Health & Physical Education Arena
- NRG Astrodome
- NRG Stadium
- Alexander Durley Sports Complex
Parks & green spaces
90 mapped- Fleming Park
- Hermann Park
- Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham Park
87 more mapped places
- Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
- McGovern Centennial Gardens
- Ervan Chew Park
- Bell Park
- Mandell Park
- Braeswood Park
- Whitt Johnson Park
- Menil Park
- Wier Park
- Rooftop Park
- Levy Park
- Riverside Park
- Jennie Elizabeth Hughes Park
- Cherryhurst Park
- Peggy Park
- Mills Bennett Park
- Katharine Randall Schweppe Park
- Lamar Park
- Avondale Promenade Park
- Yvette Calloway Park
- Fire Truck Park
- Friends Park
- Rebecca Meyer Park
- Spark Park
- Elizabeth Glover Park
- Huffington Park
- Our Park
- Parkwood Park
- Midtown Park
- Mini-Park
- Baldwin Park
- Mary Elliott Park
- John P. McGovern Campus Park
- Emancipation Park
- Colonial Park
- Live Oak Park
- Pumpkin Park
- Zollie Scales Park
- Helen's Park
- West Webster Street Park
- Judson Park
- Ella Lee Park
- Pine Valley Park
- Troon Falls Park
- Homewood Park
- Sleepy Hollow Park
- Wiley Park
- Bagby Park
- Mulberry Park
- Karl Young Park
- Linkwood Park
- Olympia Park
- Autry Park
- Cyrill Madison Park
- Yellowstone Park
- Kirby Park
- Evelyn’s Park
- Malone Park
- Bethel Church Park
- Buffalo Bayou Park
- Ray Courtyard
- Central Quadrangle
- Barker Field
- Rice Physics Quad
- Graduate Student Commons
- Keck Field
- Treehouse field
- Academic Quadrangle
- Herztein Field
- John and Anne Grove
- Engineering Quadrangle
- Duncan Hall Field
- Wiess Grove
- Sallyport Field
- Rice Founder's Court
- Lovett Field
- The Commons
- Vassar Spaceway
- Allen Family Courtyard
- Cooley Center Courtyard
- Fannin-Greenbriar Triangle
- West University Little League Fields
- Taub Baseball Field
- Carruth Plaza
- Liberty Hill
- Adaptive Sports and Recreation
- Hogg Bird Sanctuary
About this local snapshot
These are named places in OpenStreetMap, not event listings or a popularity ranking. Examples prioritise named parks and gardens in the green-space category, then distance from Rice University. Mapping coverage varies: counts do not measure how lively a city is, and an omitted category does not mean there are no venues. Opening status has not been checked for every place; check access and hours before visiting. Snapshot: 2026-09-07.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Filtered and grouped by Univised.
The regional economy · 2024 Census ACS
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area
Metropolitan-area residents, not just Houston or the student population.
Largest industries by employment share
Education & health20.9% · 798,641 employed residents
Professional & business services14.2% · 543,230 employed residents
Retail10.2% · 388,199 employed residents
Broad employer industries, not roles or job vacancies. Annual survey estimates include commuters working outside the metro.
Explore industries & history →Applying here
Requirements & deadlines
First-year, fall 2027. International requirements are conditional; music has a separate route.
Complete the required secondary curriculum. Science and engineering have additional subject prerequisites. SAT/ACT is recommended, not compulsory. Check English-proficiency exemptions and program-specific portfolios.
Reviewed 2026-09-07. Official admissions guidance ↗
Rankings
Reputation & career strength.
Univised career benchmarks
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.07× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 1.73×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.094. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.04× to 1.15×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 2.80× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 3.25×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.801. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 2.50× to 3.05×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.42× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 3.48×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.170. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.23× to 1.84×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 0.99× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 0.92×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.114. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 0.98× to 1.00×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.09× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 5.00×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.022. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.05× to 1.22×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 0.97× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 0.52×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.067. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 0.93× to 0.98×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
Career ratings adjust for evidence strength. Compatible-school estimates are used only where supported; a neutral fallback means unknown, not measured average performance. These are not hiring odds or degree-quality measurements.
Creative paths
Where creative careers have started.
Documented education links for notable people—not graduation counts or hiring odds. This initial Wikidata snapshot samples up to 500 links per field.
Rice University
1 distinct people in this snapshot
Design · 1
University context
A little more perspective.
Campus community
Faith & belonging
No reported institutional religious affiliation
Institutional affiliation does not describe students’ individual beliefs. A verified campus-wide religious breakdown is not available in this dataset.
Campus experience
Campus ratings and verifiable strengths.
Industry strengths
Observed employment evidence where supported; otherwise ranking-informed or comparable-school estimates. These school-level ratings do not verify programme availability or hiring probability.
Sports snapshot
IndoorTrack WomenArchived rank #38
OutdoorTrack WomenArchived rank #49
Tennis MenArchived rank #49 · 17 - 8
IndoorTrack MenArchived rank #51
Tennis WomenArchived rank #56 · 12 - 10
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Accounting and Related ServicesMaster's Degree$67,101 Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical EngineeringMaster's Degree$99,517 AnthropologyBachelors Degree$33,098 AnthropologyDoctoral Degree$52,107 AnthropologyMaster's Degree$61,673 Applied MathematicsBachelors Degree$86,580 Applied MathematicsDoctoral DegreeView degree Applied MathematicsMaster's Degree$84,011 Architectural Sciences and TechnologyBachelors Degree$51,064 Architectural Sciences and TechnologyMaster's Degree$62,579 ArchitectureBachelors Degree$52,524 ArchitectureMaster's Degree$61,279 Area StudiesBachelors Degree$38,428 Astronomy and AstrophysicsBachelors Degree$47,706 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular BiologyBachelors Degree$24,421 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular BiologyDoctoral Degree$60,771 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular BiologyMaster's Degree$59,194 Biological and Physical SciencesDoctoral Degree$60,771 Biological and Physical SciencesMaster's Degree$59,194 Biology, GeneralBachelors Degree$31,667 Biomedical/Medical EngineeringBachelors Degree$52,107 Biomedical/Medical EngineeringDoctoral Degree$78,538 Biomedical/Medical EngineeringMaster's Degree$72,230 Business Administration, Management and OperationsBachelors Degree$89,530 Business Administration, Management and OperationsDoctoral Degree$88,198 Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree$127,993 Chemical EngineeringBachelors Degree$83,915 Chemical EngineeringDoctoral Degree$97,802 Chemical EngineeringMaster's Degree$82,052 ChemistryBachelors Degree$42,012
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