Students

The following statistics describe the Fall 2007 degree-seeking student body::

• 3,001 undergraduates (includes 41 professional students)
• 2,144 graduate students
• Undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 5-to-1
• Sixty-eight percent of the students accepted for undergraduate admission were in the top 5 percent of their high school class
• The top 25 percent of the 2007 entering class scored above 1510 on the SAT, and 75 percent of the class scored above 1330
• Fifty percent of Rice students hail from Texas
• Thirty-two percent of Rice students are from other states
• Sixteen percent of Rice students are from outside the United States*

Rice University uses its $4.0 billion endowment – one of the largest endowments held by any college or university in the world – to discount tuition for all students. Rice's tuition figure of $28,400 for academic year 2007 - 2008 is substantially less than that charged by comparable private institutions. Rice administers a need-blind admission process, so admission to Rice is not influenced by financial background. Seventy-one percent of undergraduates received some form of financial aid in 2007-2008.

*Two percent of the student body did not designate a place of origin.