Enrollment Next Steps

Pay your deposit and reserve your seat by completing your Reply to Admission form. You may access the Reply to Admission form through the link in your admissions letter, by clicking on the "Save your Spot" button above, or by logging in to your application portal.

In the spring, you will receive access information for your ESTHER account, NetID and Rice email. You will need to activate your Rice email address! (Please note that records will not be created until February and you will not have access to your Rice email until then.)

In the spring, you will also gain access to our Onboarding Site, which will help you get prepared for classes to start in the fall.

Official Documents Required for Enrollment

1. Begin collecting official test scores. If you have not already sent us an official test score report, please refer to the directions below:
    

   TEST OPTION	FULL-TIME MBA	MBA FOR PROFESSIONALS	EXECUTIVE MBA
   GMAT	3WS-WD-92	3WS-WD-68	3WS-WD-58
   GRE	7502
   Executive Assessment (EA)	“Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business”

2. Begin collecting official transcripts. We require official transcripts from your previous undergraduate and graduate degrees only. Most U.S. institutions are able to send us official transcripts electronically via an official electronic delivery service. This means that we are unable to accept transcripts that you personally send to us via email; even if they are certified as "official" PDFs, we will still need them to be sent to us directly from your school.
   
   When requesting electronic delivery, please have your transcripts sent to ricemba@rice.edu. Transcripts may also be delivered to our office by hand (in an unopened, university-stamped envelope), or by mail to:
   
   Rice MBA Recruiting and Admissions
   6100 Main Street, MS 531
   Houston, Texas 77005

   Special Instructions for International Degrees:
   To ensure credential standardization, we require that all international transcripts (not from the USA) be reviewed by a third-party transcript evaluation service. Please use one of the following providers:

   Please request that your transcript evaluation be sent to us directly (either to ricemba@rice.edu or the physical address above). This will also fulfill the official transcript requirement.
    

   • SpanTran: The Evaluation Company (divisional course analysis)
   • World Education Service (course-by-course evaluation)
   • Educational Credential Evaluators (course-by-course evaluation)

International Full-Time MBA Students

1. You will have additional steps to take care of before you join your classmates in the fall: navigating the visa process. Our Office of International Students and Scholars spearheads the I-20 journey, look for their email invitation to create your OISS portal and ask for the team's guidance if questions arise.
    
2. Look at this presentation file for your specific next steps.