<p>Hello,
I got a full scholarship for both tulane and rice university for undergraduate school.
I wish u coild study economy. I was also thinking about boston college and georgetown.
What u think will be the best choice for me?</p>
<p>Unless you’ve been granted a full scholarship by your home country (are you an international?), I don’t believe you.</p>
<p>I’m italian, i have a scholarship for athletic, i play tennis, i also have wta ranking and everything, that’s why i have those scholarship.</p>
<p>Rice is a much better school than Tulane.</p>
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<p>Can you elaborate?</p>
<p>r i c e ! ! ! ! !</p>
<p>Rice is probably a notch above Tulane in academics. That being said, both universities probably have weak international pull. So unless you’re very strongly into academics, I’d go based off of fit. </p>
<p>New Orleans would offer a lot to students in terms of food, culture and music. Houston might have similar offerings, but I’m not familiar with it enough as a city. Perhaps barrk123 would be able to provide you with better insight than I can on the city.</p>
<p>Rice is far superior.</p>
<p>Rice imo, I think Rice is a better school than Tulane, I also feel like NO is just not a nice city at all. (I don’t know about Tulane but Rice is in a really rich part of Houston).</p>
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<p>Houston has a myriad of places to eat, there is a restaurant for almost every type of food from most every country. As for the culture Houston has the Space Center, Natural History Museum, Art Museum, and the Houston Zoo + There is a lot of artsy/music stuff in Austin which is only 3 hours away.</p>
<p>beyphy, I think you underrate Rice. Rice is one of the best universities in the US. Tulane is not quite as strong. Internationally, Rice definitely has a reasonably strong reputation (thanks to its solid Engineering programs). I would definitely recommend Rice over Tulane.</p>
<p>Rice both athletically and academically over Tulane. You could also look into UVA and UNC-Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>Alexandre, what I will say about Rice is that it has a relatively high endowment considering how many students it has. That being said, it has few Nobel laureates and no Fields or Turing award winners (at least none were mentioned on the Wikipedia page.) And its rankings in the international community didn’t seem very strong (via Wikipedia) :</p>
<p>ARWU[58]
91 </p>
<p>QS[59]
116 </p>
<p>Times[60]
72 </p>
<p>In international rankings, I’d say universities after the top 50 are pretty negligible. So Rice, at least imo, doesn’t seem to have that much of a greater international pull than Tulane. I would agree with the rest of the posters that Rice is undoubtedly the stronger university. And if that’s what’s most important to you OP, you should certainly go to Rice.</p>
<p>Rice by leaps and bounds!</p>
<p>beyphy, I agree that international rankings are relevant to international students seeking work in Europe or Asia. However, there are several things to consider:</p>
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<li>The OP may wish to start her career in the US before moving back to Europe</li>
<li>There are many US companies in Europe. Those may well give Rice its due respect </li>
<li>Even if she wishes to leave the US after graduation, the academic and intellectual at Rice is hard to beat</li>
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<p>Good points Alexandre. I admit that I forgot to think about the second one in particular, which might be favorable to the OP if he’s applying for a Texas company in the U.S. or the world.</p>
<p>Still haven’t heard exactly why Rice is better. Anyone?</p>
<p>Objectively:
-Better ranked economics faculty. Rice’s econ department is 42nd in the nation, versus 80th for Tulane. [NRC</a> Rankings in Economics](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/area36.html]NRC”>NRC Rankings in Economics)
-Much larger per person endowment
-Generally better overall departments, especially in more quantitative fields
-Overall, stronger average student body in terms of incoming stats. Rice’s IPEDS data: [College</a> Navigator - Rice University](<a href=“College Navigator - Rice University”>College Navigator - Rice University) vs Tulane’s: [College</a> Navigator - Tulane University of Louisiana](<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - Tulane University of Louisiana)</p>
<p>Subjectively:
-Rice is the overall best undergraduate school in its region. That region includes Louisiana (as well as my current state).
-The housing systems fosters a sense of community that most other universities cannot match
-Undergraduate research is heavily promoted, even for non hard science majors.
-Houston is one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the US. The metro area has over 6 million people meaning that anything an undergrad wants as far as city life, s/he can access.
-Rice promotes a very nerdy, intellectual atmosphere, but not in the same sense that Harvey Mudd or UChicago does.
-Rice’s reputation trumps Tulane’s.</p>
<p>Although Tulane is a very good private university, Rice is one of the best in the country. I’d be interested to hear your arguments as to why Tulane is even in the same league as Rice outside of a few fields which the OP didn’t express an interest in. That being said, does either school give out full rides for women’s tennis? I thought that was a “partial scholarship” sport, even at the DI level, hence my suspicion about the OP’s question.</p>
<p>^ I don’t have any argument either way. I’m just very interested in the opinions of those that really know each school. Up here in NY, few people know Rice.</p>
<p>There is a reason as to why Rice is called “the Harvard/Ivy of the south”.</p>
<p>If I had the choice, I’d go with Tulane. The fit is just better- New Orleans, great school, New Orleans. Did I mention it’s in the city of New Orleans?</p>