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More than 500 MBA graduates crossed the stage May 9 at the Jones Graduate School of Business MBA commencement ceremony in Tudor Fieldhouse. The ceremony marked the graduation of the 10,000th student from Rice Business.
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School Updates
Rice University conferred more than 250 doctoral degrees during its 112th commencement May 10 at Tudor Fieldhouse. Doctoral candidates along with friends, family and loved ones gathered for the ceremony, which included the awarding of doctoral regalia, congratulatory remarks, cheers and a few moments to reflect on this milestone.
11 May
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In The Media
In this edition of Real Numbers of MBA Admissions, we round up the percentage of students of the Classes of 2024 placed in tech.
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Local restaurants across the Greater Heights are scrambling to adapt to supply-chain related pressures. Rice business professor David VanHorn said even if supply chains aren’t global that they are still complex.
SeebeckCell Technologies, a startup in the first class of the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator, announced they are invited to participate in the Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) Catalyst Program to develop further their technology platform designed to recover industrial waste heat energy, increasing energy consumption efficiency, and eliminating battery replacement in IoT applications.
Rice Business will host the sixth annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Conference Oct. 29. The event is designed to provide a forum for awareness, dialogue and skill-building around DEI issues as they relate to the business world.
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University is ranked No. 3 in Poets & Quants’ World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship rankings for 2022, up from No. 15 on the 2021 list.
Poets&Quants' third annual ranking of the Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship features 38 of the world's best business schools. Rice Business climbed to the third spot this year.
“The more thoughtful the organisation is in making decisions, the better the long-term outcome is going to be for both the applicant who gets hired and the organisation,” says Brent Smith, associate professor of management and psychology at Rice Business.
At Rice Business, the job offer rate three months post-graduation jumped by 7 percentage points over last year, and the acceptance rate by 3 percentage points; meanwhile Jones reported its highest recorded salary in school history.
Jack Gill, a Rice Business professor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, received a Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Legacy Award at the group's 25th annual conference. The Legacy Award celebrates the pioneering work of the world’s top university-based entrepreneurship leaders.
The world’s premier university-based entrepreneurship institutes and leaders were celebrated at the 25th annual Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference on Oct. 13-16. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is the administrative home for the GCEC.
Congratulations to Roxanne Hambrick '21 and Zohair Memon '21 for being featured as Business Leaders of Tomorrow by Online MBA Report, recognizing the top online MBA students across the US.
