The new director of career planning is a tremendous asset to the school, and I have every confidence he will improve what I consider the weakest aspect of the school. The new building should only further serve to improve the school's upward momentum. Rice is noted for its architecture, so I am sure it will be an excellent facility. The professors are top notch and extremely accessible. This year we have a marked increase in people who have chosen marketing, and many of them have gotten jobs with excellent companies.
Rice is a good program with good students and some excellent professors.
The size of the school limits the number of electives offered. The number of electives available to be offered is further reduced because of the faculty offering classes to both full-time and executive MBA students. Rice is very open to suggestions and made some of the executive MBA classes available to full-time students. The primary recommendation I have for Rice would be to change the order of the curriculum. While important, I could have been taking advanced classed in finance that would have better prepared me for summer internship interviews in spring.