Value57/100
Medium evidence59/100 profile coverage
Mixed direct and modelled. Missing lenses stay blank and do not become low scores.
Admissions70
Value100
Career25
Experience0
Location100
Scorecard
A balanced read, not one ranking.
Academic70
Career52
Evidence coverage59
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 27.3 km from University of St Thomas. 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.
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Requirements & deadlines
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Official university website ↗Rankings
Reputation & career strength.
Univised career benchmarks
How estimated
Broad prior. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Insufficient comparable peers or unsupported peer-model performance. The neutral 1× fallback means unknown, not measured average outcomes; no individual rank is assigned.
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
Broad prior. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Insufficient comparable peers or unsupported peer-model performance. The neutral 1× fallback means unknown, not measured average outcomes; no individual rank is assigned.
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
Broad prior. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Insufficient comparable peers or unsupported peer-model performance. The neutral 1× fallback means unknown, not measured average outcomes; no individual rank is assigned.
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
Broad prior. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Insufficient comparable peers or unsupported peer-model performance. The neutral 1× fallback means unknown, not measured average outcomes; no individual rank is assigned.
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
Broad prior. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Insufficient comparable peers or unsupported peer-model performance. The neutral 1× fallback means unknown, not measured average outcomes; no individual rank is assigned.
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
Broad prior. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Insufficient comparable peers or unsupported peer-model performance. The neutral 1× fallback means unknown, not measured average outcomes; no individual rank is assigned.
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.
Campus community
Faith & belonging
Roman Catholic
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.
Degrees
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Accounting and Related ServicesBachelors Degree$50,814 Accounting and Related ServicesMaster's Degree$63,501 Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural EducationMaster's Degree$47,480 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular BiologyBachelors Degree$33,993 Biology, GeneralBachelors Degree$29,685 Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational BiologyBachelors Degree$57,464 BiotechnologyMaster's Degree$46,478 Business Administration, Management and OperationsBachelors Degree$43,220 Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree$63,005 Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical SciencesBachelors Degree$31,758 ChemistryBachelors Degree$33,993 Communication and Media StudiesBachelors Degree$35,394 Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, OtherBachelors Degree$38,721 Computer ScienceBachelors Degree$67,428 CriminologyBachelors Degree$36,183 Curriculum and InstructionMaster's Degree$47,130 Drama/Theatre Arts and StagecraftBachelors Degree$20,938 EconomicsBachelors Degree$45,808 Education, GeneralBachelors Degree$46,478 Education, GeneralGraduate/Professional Certificate$51,273 Education, GeneralMaster's Degree$56,208 Educational Administration and SupervisionDoctoral Degree$89,484 Educational Administration and SupervisionMaster's Degree$57,228 English Language and Literature, GeneralBachelors Degree$28,740 Finance and Financial Management ServicesBachelors Degree$50,452 Finance and Financial Management ServicesMaster's Degree$68,359 Fine and Studio ArtsBachelors Degree$25,194 HistoryBachelors Degree$26,121 International BusinessBachelors Degree$39,108 International BusinessMaster's Degree$78,343
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