Rice University is a private institution that was founded in 1912. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,848, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 285 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Rice University's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 18.

Rice University, located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, offers a dynamic student life in the nation’s fourth-largest city.