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Old 11-02-2011, 08:27 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Houston's Rice University ranks quite well on best private college values... just after Princeton, Yale, and CalTech.

Kiplinger calls Rice University better value than Harvard, Stanford and more | Chron.com blog

Best Values in Private Colleges, 2010-11
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Old 11-02-2011, 08:31 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Houston's Rice University ranks quite well on best private college values... just after Princeton, Yale, and CalTech.
Woohoo, Rice!
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Old 11-02-2011, 08:36 PM
 
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And UH is coming up as an academic institution... not to mention they WHOOPED Rice owls last week! (RUCK FICE!!!)

Prairie View is another good school.. with a dedicated staff and Alumni...

Houston has some solid learning institutions... which is massively supported by the solid job market...
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Old 11-02-2011, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Rice is a good school. Depends what yur major is....
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Old 11-02-2011, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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And UH is coming up as an academic institution... not to mention they WHOOPED Rice owls last week! (RUCK FICE!!!)

Prairie View is another good school.. with a dedicated staff and Alumni...

Houston has some solid learning institutions... which is massively supported by the solid job market...
Praire View & Cougar High aren't in the same universe as Rice.

Winning a football game has nothing to do with academics.

Admission SAT scores, class rank, & HS GPA's for Rice vs. UofH & PV A&M are night & day.

Nothing against these schools but Rice is "Ivy light." No other school in Texas compares.
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Old 11-02-2011, 10:12 PM
 
Location: Not Moving
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Well.....I dunno.....the American Council of Trustees and Alumni gives Rice an "F". Yale gets a "D." Baylor an "A."

It's under what are we teaching our children......somethin' to think about......

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Old 11-02-2011, 11:48 PM
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Best value is arguably whichever college/major "brand"/union card helps one gain most lucrative first job upon leaving college

Not clear any college really "teaches" any useful skills which any smart kid can't self-educate for near-free via iPad/Kindle/youtube, etc once one learns to read and count (so from age 3-4 onward)

Doubt most lucrative, most selective employers in software or oil&gas or hedge funds will pay top dollar to hire a clueless, unskilled lib arts grad from any college no matter how allegedly prestigious, nor a bottom 90% of class kid who allegedly majored in CS or PetrolEngg or finance
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Old 11-03-2011, 05:50 AM
 
Location: La Isla Encanta, Puerto Rico
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I work for a energy firm , not based in Houston or even Texas, and we fall all over ourselves to bring in Rice grad students in petroleum engineering and earth sciences, and they almost all get permanent job offers. I'm not sure how it works for business or liberal arts types but Rice gets very good nationwide respect for science, engineering, and technology. Remember too, the James Baker Institute is on the Rice Campus so that should make their government and poly-sci types in pretty good demand. ... well, at least during Republican administrations. :-)
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Old 11-03-2011, 07:50 AM
 
Location: League City
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Praire View & Cougar High aren't in the same universe as Rice.

Winning a football game has nothing to do with academics.

Admission SAT scores, class rank, & HS GPA's for Rice vs. UofH & PV A&M are night & day.

Nothing against these schools but Rice is "Ivy light." No other school in Texas compares.

Aw geez, another horn or aggie grad going out of the way to needle UH? I think it's general knowledge that UH, PVAMU, and Rice serve entirely different populations.
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Old 11-03-2011, 08:02 AM
 
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Rice is a wonderful school! No comparison to other schools in TX. Very difficult to get in obviously.
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