The Shepherd School of Music is building stronger links with psychology. Many other universities have more professional schools, but we alone have chosen to concentrate on architecture, business and music. A great university is, after all, known as much for what it chooses not to do as for what it chooses to do. Rice today is involved in more than 70 collaborative programs, large and small, with several institutions of the Texas Medical Center, just across the street. Beyond that, we have made it known that our readiness for collaboration extends to all of Texas, the entire country and the world.
Rice is the only American university that has had a European university modeled after it.
In size, structure, ambition and mission, the new International University Bremen in Germany will be the European version of Rice. Our involvement in this new institution is, along with the Baker Institute and our expanded study-abroad programs, part and parcel of our broad strategy for internationalization of our curriculum and programs. That is especially true for those in science and engineering, who in the past could find few places that offered course work worthy of Rice credit. In effect, IUB's library will be primarily Rice's library, online. This undertaking could profoundly alter the future of higher education in all of Europe.