<p>How is the engineering program at Rice University? Specifically, how is Materials Science and Engineering?</p>
<p>Rice is pretty much nanotechnology capital of the world. In other words Material Science at Rice is very strong. You got some of the best resources available such as: The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), Valve of Information-based Sustainable Embedded Nanocomputing Center (VISEN), Rice Quantum Institute (RQI), Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.
Also Rice was currently ranked #1 for material science institution based on the number of citations per paper (which is a really legitimate way to rank schools, unlike peer ranking used by USNWR).
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So material science at Rice is amazing and very strong</p>
<p>The enginnering program at Rice is strong, but I’m going to caution you that the engineering disciplines at Rice are smaller programs than at universities like Purdue, MIT, etc. But that’s because Rice only enrolls approximately 3500 undergrads.</p>
<p>Still - lots of chances to work with profs on research or do your own funded research.</p>
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I think that title might go to CNSE @ SUNY Albany. But Rice is definitely strong :)</p>
<p>is there something wrong with the USNWR engineering specialities rankings? are they accurate at all?</p>