<p>I'm seriously considering Rice for so many reasons, I really, really love it. I know that many people from northern states wouldn't have a clue where it is and I honestly don't care about them or what kind of prestige Rice will or won't bring to me. What I concerned about is whether grad schools realize that Rice is a very competitive school and academically challenging. </p>
<p>Is it possible to go to a stellar grad school (like Harvard or Princeton) if I do brilliantly at Rice (assuming that I do)? Or will top grad schools have trouble even recognizing the name and not even appreciate just how good Rice is?</p>
<p>well, id suggest reading the 5 other threads about this as well because its been talked about A LOT.</p>
<p>There are many people i know who go to prestigious schools for grad school. yes you can get into harvard and princeton. depends on your major though… what are you planning to major it? because that determines grad school.</p>
<p>going to princeton only makes sense for certain fields</p>
<p>About 40% of each class goes into graduate programs. Of Rice students applying to graduate school, about 70% are admitted to their first choice program. Rice has a 90% acceptance rate to medical school.</p>
<p>These stats are from 2003. Rice’s reputation is only increasing. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Do you mean it seems as though getting into a grad school (that is not med/law/eng) is hard from Rice? Or are you just observing that people don’t like to go to non-professional grad schools? I believe that for many fields, you only go to grad school to teach and/or publish. Or for the sake of learning, but come on, who does that?! ;)</p>
<p>Also, where is business school in that percentage?</p>
<p>If you’ll do well at Rice, you wouldn’t find getting into top grad school hard. Rice does not have the prestige of the ivy league schools such as HYP, or even Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Chicago and the like, but it surely has a top-notched undergrad education, or at least, on par with those more well-known schools.</p>
<p>To be honest, I feel like Rice is pretty well known. I’m from southern California, and everyone I’ve told that I was going to apply to Rice for transfer had heard of the school and knew it was a good school. And if I get in, I’ll definitely feel cool.</p>
<p>In the academic world, Rice has plenty of prestige for its undergrad degrees, and I don’t have enough info to judge the grad degrees. Most people who post about grad school reputations on CC are 17-year-old high school students just repeating things they’ve heard, so I take the comments with a grain of salt!!!</p>
<p>well, having spoken to employers in a couple of companies and some of my dads friends all over the place, Rice has a well known engineering, business grad school. </p>
<p>it does not have the grad school prestige of some other top schools at the grad level yet</p>
<p>Rice does not have a single postgrad program that we can honestly say it’s one of the very best in the nation, more so in the world. Rice’s engineering and business schools aren’t that great yet, when compared to the likes of Stanford and Berkeley. Rice strength lies on its excellent undergrad education. Right now, it operates like Brown or Dartmouth, though it’s nice to know that the university officials are trying their best to make the school one of the academic powerhouses in the world. The trend of Rice is heading to become a research university, just like what Stanford and Harvard are right now.</p>
<p>^^ I agree. that doesnt mean that Rice isnt recognized as a excellent school at the grad level. I never said that it was Caltech or MIT, but Rice is not too far behind.</p>
<p>RML: Notwithstanding US News, graduate BioE is one of the best in the nation if one pays attention to research over the past few years. In developing medical applications of nanotechnology Rice is second to none.</p>
<p>U.S. News thinks so too… they ranked Rice’s graduate BioE program 7th in the nation, tying it with UPenn’s program and above Stanford’s and WashU’s program.</p>
<p>I agree with you all that on some specific programs, Rice can be considered top-notched. But in general, grad engineering and business programs aren’t top caliber. It’s undergrad, however, is one of the very best out there, or on par with the lower ivies, at least. I would personally rank it higher than Brown and Cornell.</p>