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 seventy collaborative programs, large and small, with the 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. The idea for this new university arose just two and one-half years ago. 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. Among other things, International University Bremen will be a boon for overseas study for Rice students. 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.