In our search for students with strong leadership backgrounds and diverse extracurricular experiences, we look far and wide. And we find you. While you share some outstanding characteristics with other students entering highly selective universities this year, you are also different in many notable ways. So it is with the university you have chosen as your lifelong partner in education. Rice shares some similarities with sister private institutions across the nation, but we are also different in about a dozen major ways.
Rice is smaller than every other leading research university.
Our size brings with it very many advantages, but also some challenges. Moreover, we have sensible, prudent policies in place to assure financial strength in the decades to come if equities markets remain reasonably strong, and stability if they do not. Rice has used its healthy endowment to provide educational subsidies to you unmatched by any of our peer institutions. Even for students not on financial aid, tuition at Rice is about one-third the costs of undergraduate education. For undergraduates generally, our net tuition income covers less than one-tenth the costs of a Rice education.