Rice University to grow to 9,000 students by 2025 (Houston: home, schools)

[ParaguaneroSwag]

The new growth strategies are being detailed just as Leebron is fixing to step down. Launching a $2 billion campaign to grow the school. Part of which has been secured recently through donations such as the Welch Material Sciences Institute.

Rice University has launched a comprehensive capital campaign to raise $2 billion by the end of 2025, by far the largest fundraising effort in the university’s history.

The campaign will underwrite a wide range of endowments, expansions and enhancements to the academic experience and research enterprise at Rice, including hiring more faculty, implementing new programs and research endeavors, building new facilities and expanding the student body.

“Rice is now dramatically expanding not only its faculty and its enrollment, but also its ambitions and its impact on the world,” President David Leebron said. “We’re building this campaign upon our commitment to be transformative, visionary, innovative, creative and equitable. We’re setting a bold goal for a bold future of Rice that will provide greater opportunities to address the needs of our world.”

https://news.rice.edu/news/2021/rice...pital-campaign

[Houston parent]

It's not that big of an increase - total enrollment is already around 8,500. Rice has stayed too small for too long so they can brag about their selectivity. The truth is Rice could easily be over 10,000 students today with no decrease in the academic profile of its incoming students (GPA, average SAT, etc.). Elite universities take a sick pride in how many students they refuse to educate, rather than how many they do grudgingly accept and educate. That kind of mindset does not serve Houston, Texas or the US very well.

Full disclosure: I grew up walking distance from the Rice campus, attending many home football, basketball & baseball games.
My father graduated from Rice, and I received an MBA from Rice. I've always felt that Rice should be more focused on serving our community by educating more bright young people than they have been willing to do. There are many highly qualified applicants with 4.0 GPAs and top test scores for every spot in their incoming classes.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by houston parent

it's not that big of an increase - total enrollment is already around 8,500. Rice has stayed too small for too long so they can brag about their selectivity. The truth is rice could easily be over 10,000 students today with no decrease in the academic profile of its incoming students (gpa, average sat, etc.). Elite universities take a sick pride in how many students they refuse to educate, rather than how many they do grudgingly accept and educate. That kind of mindset does not serve houston, texas or the us very well.

Full disclosure: I grew up walking distance from the rice campus, attending many home football, basketball & baseball games.
My father graduated from rice, and i received an mba from rice. I've always felt that rice should be more focused on serving our community by educating more bright young people than they have been willing to do. There are many highly qualified applicants with 4.0 gpas and top test scores for every spot in their incoming classes.

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[swopoe]

Originally Posted by Houston parent

It's not that big of an increase - total enrollment is already around 8,500. Rice has stayed too small for too long so they can brag about their selectivity. The truth is Rice could easily be over 10,000 students today with no decrease in the academic profile of its incoming students (GPA, average SAT, etc.). Elite universities take a sick pride in how many students they refuse to educate, rather than how many they do grudgingly accept and educate. That kind of mindset does not serve Houston, Texas or the US very well.

Full disclosure: I grew up walking distance from the Rice campus, attending many home football, basketball & baseball games.
My father graduated from Rice, and I received an MBA from Rice. I've always felt that Rice should be more focused on serving our community by educating more bright young people than they have been willing to do. There are many highly qualified applicants with 4.0 GPAs and top test scores for every spot in their incoming classes.

True- elite universities are highly rejective, not highly selective. And I went to an elite college with under 2000 students.

[Houston parent]

As a follow-up to my previous post, here are some recent admissions stats for "top" schools, including Rice:
https://ingeniusprep.com/blog/2021-c...more%20rows%20

[hbcu]

and that means they'll once again spend more time offering the small pool of academic minded minorities full rides which then has a trickle-down affect to schools who seek those students on a consistent basis

[naners1]

By the same token, the University of Houston Medical School had over 6000 applicants and only 60 were chosen.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/l...ening-in-2022/