<p>I'm curious as to what Rice's strongest programs are. I know that their music program is phenomenal, but I'm not very interested in studying music as a major.</p>
<p>How do their science and engineering majors compare?</p>
<p>Top 3 architecture programme.
One of the best engineering programmes.
Great pre-med, pre-law (theyre not specified majors as such, but people going to law or med school from Rice have very high acceptance rates)
Pretty much everything to do with science and engineering really.
Humanities is a bit weaker, but awesome nevertheless. I dont know much about it, so wait for someone else to post!</p>
<p>At Rice:
Music is incredible.
Architecture is incredible.
Science/engineering is incredible.</p>
<p>The school has some very good humanities programs, as well... Not Rice's strongest programs, but everyone at Rice tends to be very talented and intelligent. The professors are excellent, across the board, but the three programs I mentioned above are just phenomenal, and well-respected in academia and industry.</p>
<p>music has arguably the best facilities and faculty in the country. certain studios are more competitive than others; i know the acceptance rate for voice a few years back was only 8%. overall, though, Shepherd is one of the best music schools in the USA.</p>
<p>What about the Social Science school?</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me how good the history program is? It seems like there are not that many students in it (I think I read something like a 100). And also how good is english?</p>
<p>Rice is traditionally strong in its science and engineering programs, though it has worked hard in the last decade to improve its offerings in the humanities -- language, history, social sciences, etc. You can refer to national publications if you want to see where Rice ranks for a particular area, but a Rice education is so much more than the particular department from which you receive your degree. <em>All</em> of Rice's departments will provide you with a quality education.</p>
<p>As for size, look... Rice is <em>small.</em> What are we at now? About 3,000 undergraduates or so? I'll have to look up the numbers later. Assuming that's true, however, 100 students in a department is 3% of the undergraduate population. Relatively speaking, that's a healthy percentage.</p>
<p>Public Policy program rocks</p>
<p>Rice's philosophy program is reputable.</p>
<p>Humanities is going to get a little stronger id imagine
the houston chronicle just reported a week or two ago that the department got a 20mil donation</p>
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<p>Who gave the donation?</p>
<p>no one knows</p>
<p>That's the Houston Chronicle article that covers the donation. But I'd imagine anything that has the Rice prestige has got to be good. I've heard the best things about their science/engineering programs as well. </p>
<p>Perhaps this link might help as well, but I'm not too sure about its validity. <a href="http://www.graduateshotline.com/ranks/%5B/url%5D">http://www.graduateshotline.com/ranks/</a></p>
<p>I asked because both Georgetown and Harvard just received a 20 million Dollar donation.</p>