Rice University: Ranked Number One- Best Quality of Life (Princeton: school, universities)

[DANNYY]

Rice ranked No. 1 for

An excerpt:

For the second year in a row, Rice University is ranked No. 1 nationally for "Best Quality of Life" by the Princeton Review in its annual guidebook of the country’s best colleges.

Read more on it in the article link provided at the top of the post.

[SouthmoreAve]

Neat, a truly great university,albeit small, and thats the only thing I don't like about Rice, but that's what makes the quality of life at Rice so much better I suppose, but I think it wouldn't hurt the university to be a medium-sized university of 10,000.

[SouthernBoy205]

That's awesome!

[Grunn]

Wonder-Douche-ful

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by Grunn

Wonder-Douche-ful

I'm really sorry you feel that way Grunn, maybe next year Oxford can be number one for this category?

[Wonderful Jellal]

No, it's impossible...We know all Texas has bad universities only because Texas haters say it

Honestly it's good to know, I expect a real rise of Texas universities this decade, as the economy.

[groovamos]

Originally Posted by SouthmoreAve

Neat, a truly great university,albeit small, and thats the only thing I don't like about Rice, but that's what makes the quality of life at Rice so much better I suppose, but I think it wouldn't hurt the university to be a medium-sized university of 10,000.

My take: I graduated from Vanderbilt in '72, the enrollment then was about 5700 total. It had a kind of medium/small medical center by big city standards. Now Vanderbilt is more than 12,000 enrollment and the med center is truly massive, and maybe the best in the southeast. There is so much biomedical research there that the university is now in the top 15 in the nation in research funding, or at least it was 3~4 years ago. I think Rice will have to merge with a hospital/med school to advance down the same path as Vanderbilt, and generate renown as a research university. I will add that VU merged with Peabody College ca. 1978 and immediately added 1700 or so to the enrollment.

If you're interested here is an area of surgical technique which originated at VUMC, I met the surgeon behind this development, as he performed the procedure on my brother-in-law: The Section of Surgical Sciences - VUMC to Webcast Live Robotic Surgery at International Symposium

[stanwood]

Great to know. I'll pass this on to my son. He'll be a freshman at Rice in the fall of 2011.

[alwaysflyin]

Great! As a proud Rice alum, this is no surprise!

[just4ivaylo]

You sure as hell should expect that for what they're charging.