Don’t miss your chance to apply to the Rice Business Professional MBA, Executive MBA or Deferred Enrollment programs. No matter which program you choose, you’ll learn from world-class faculty in our small, tight-knit community. The final deadline for rolling admission on a space-available basis is June 30. You belong here. We can't wait to meet you.
The Rice Business Task Force on Racial Equity and Social Justice is charged with researching, evaluating and recommending actions to be taken by Rice Business to promote racial equity and social justice.
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Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine, 2020 & 2021
Full-Time MBA Program with The Most Minority Students in Top 25
Poets & Quants, 2020
Best MBA For Finance
Princeton Review, 2021
Best MBA For Consulting
Princeton Review, 2021
Rice Business is a family of people who are intentional about showing up with empathy and lending their expertise beyond the classroom to ensure that you have a meaningful MBA experience. This was a space where I could genuinely learn, connect and thrive.
Full-Time MBA ‘21
There is a collaborative feel to the program. We study together, learn from one another, and most of the assignments are tackled in groups of three to five.
Full-Time MBA '20
Rice has a growth mindset culture. This is your safe place if you are looking to grow and feel challenged with such great faculty and students.
Executive MBA ‘20
Rice Business is proud to join the university-wide arts initiative with our installation of Triple Virgo suspended in the McNair Hall rotunda. Rice Public Art offers innovative and meaningful experiences to students, integrating works across campus into academic life. California artist Pae White takes it to the next level, hoping Triple Virgo will make students think about “a globe in flux, a globe where nothing is solidified or congealed — a colorful, shifting sphere of excitement, intrigue and agility."
Rice Business Wisdom is our online ideas magazine that features faculty research.
Based on research by Professor Amit Pazgal
Essay by Rice Business Wisdom contributor Deborah Lynn Blumberg with commentary from Jaeyeon (Jae) Chung
Based on research by Vikas Mittal
The most successful companies are masters of innovation and marketing. It’s not enough to have a great product – you must be able to communicate its value. Rice Business champions the multidisciplinary nature of marketing, conducting cutting-edge, award-winning research published in the most prestigious marketing journals. Our faculty is dedicated to advancing marketing thought and practice and training a new generation of marketing leaders.
Rice’s links to slavery and racial injustice as well as the future of a memorial to the university’s founder were among the topics discussed during “Juneteenth and Emancipations to Come,” a panel discussion held June 17 via Zoom.
To boost employees’ creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study co-authored by Rice Business professor Jing Zhou.
Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — including Rice Business professor Connie Porter — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.
