Historical Facts

Students

The following statistics describe the fall 2008 degree-seeking student body:

• 3,102 undergraduates (includes 37 professional students)
• 2,237 graduate students
• Undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 5-to-1
• Seventy-five 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 2008 entering class scored above 1500 on the SAT and 75 percent of the class scored above 1340
• Fifty-two percent of Rice students hail from Texas
• Thirty-one percent of Rice students are from other states
• Seventeen percent of Rice students are from outside the United States*

Rice University uses its $4.61 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 $29,960 for academic year 2008-09 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. Sixty-two percent of undergraduates received some form of financial aid in 2008-09.

 *Includes undergraduates and graduates.

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