We offer the best of both worlds at Rice Business: a collaborative, tight-knit student body on an oasis-like campus surrounded by bustling Houston, the fourth-largest and most diverse city in America. You’ll benefit from close connections as well as the broad opportunities available in a city with the world’s largest medical complex, more than 5,000 energy firms, and the second-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the country. Together, we will elevate each other.
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The business school quad is located in the heart of Rice’s campus — McNair Hall and Virani Hall, our new 112,000-square-foot building, with room to gather, connect and collaborate with fellow students, faculty and staff. Your classes, your social life and support services are all in one place, on the campus of a major research university rather than in a leased office downtown. Everything you need is close by, and everyone knows you by name — even our world-class faculty.
Rice truly showed me the power of community. As a prospective student, I felt embraced by existing students and administration — Rice wanted me to win and I had not received an acceptance letter yet!
Owl Have You Know is Rice Business’ podcast created to share the experiences of alumni, faculty, students and other members of our business community – real stories of belonging, failing, rebounding and, ultimately, succeeding.
Our student clubs are where career preparation starts before the recruiting cycle does. The Finance Club and the Consulting Club run case prep, mock interviews and coffee chats with alumni already working at the firms you’re targeting — which is part of why finance and consulting are the two largest destinations for our graduates. Beyond that, you'll find professional organizations across energy, tech, healthcare and entrepreneurship, plus affinity groups, student government and social clubs.
At the core of our culture is the wide range of events held for and by students. Our regular “Partios” — outdoor happy hours held on our courtyard patio — bring the whole school together, while larger conferences and summits draw business leaders from Houston and beyond. Full-Time, Professional and Executive students share the same events, and Online students join for residentials — so a Thursday evening might put you next to a second-year prepping for consulting interviews, a director who's been managing a P&L for a decade and a founder three years into her company.
Welcome to Houston, the fourth-largest and most diverse city in America and a global hub for healthcare, energy, innovation, tech, the arts and more. Whether you know it as Space City, the Culinary Capital of the South or the Energy Capital of the World, we like to call it home. Get to know Houston and see what it can offer you during the next two years.
Even after you graduate from Rice Business, you’ll still be part of our community. You can stay connected by attending regular events for alumni around the globe, joining our alumni association, volunteering as a class ambassador or auditing a class.
