Does Rice actually have an undergrad business adminstration program?

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<p>It's listed on CollegeBoard in Rice's majors, but I can't find any information on it on Rice's website. I've only seen graduate business programs and undergrad business minors.</p>

<p>While I'm planning on majoring in engineering, I would consider double-majoring in both engineering and business.</p>

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<p>Rice doesn't have a business major</p>

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<p>No, Rice doesn't have an undergrad business program. It does, however, have a Jones Business School, but that is a graduate program.</p>

<p>Rice just started its Business Minor this year and also has a Managerial Studies interpdepartmental major (can only be used as a double-major, so you must be majoring in something else, like economics or whatever, before you can do MANA as well). Rice also has an Economics major and a Mathematical Economics Analysis major - the latter having an additional 6 more courses to fulfill the degree requirements and, coincidentally, being more mathematically and statistically focused.</p>

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<p>Yeah, hotasice summed the business scene up well. Elite schools like Rice see the idea of a business major as too "pre-professional." They seek to provide an education that stresses how to think broadly about important issues rather than narrowly focusing. </p>

<p>All the rhetoric aside, you can do a business minor or a Managerial Studies second major and get all the undergraduate business preparation you need here at Rice. Don't choose another university just because Rice doesn't have a dedicated business "major." All the key classes are on the course docket every semester and all the major Consulting, I-banking, finance companies, etc. snatch up Rice graduates.</p>

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Update: Rice has added an undergrad business major beginning in fall 2021. http://news.rice.edu/2021/03/01/rice-offering-undergraduate-major-in-business-starting-this-fall-2/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rice%20news&utm_content=202103-01&fbclid=IwAR3Ey0Fj1zzN8Bi9Gldtpz_uYUjzz-jOQypo1kq1eE2ybacE-Fuzv1VCxZs

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