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Rice University’s Board of Trustees has approved a plan to enlarge its undergraduate student body by 20% to 4,800 by the fall of 2025.

George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice Business, says it’s a record year for MBA applications. “We’ve had swings in the economy resulting in increased applications before, but not to this level,” he says, noting a 64 percent increase so far this year.

Eight Rice University graduate programs rank among the country’s top 25 in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” The Jones Graduate School of Business has four programs in the top 25: entrepreneurship, management, full-time MBA, and the professional MBA program.

Whether parents prefer a conformance-oriented or independence-oriented supplemental education program for their children depends on political ideology, according to a research team including Vikas Mittal, professor of marketing at Rice Business.

Understanding what drives food choices can help high-volume food service operations like universities reduce waste, according to a new study conducted by a team of experts led by Eleanor Putnam-Farr, assistant marketing professor at Rice Business.

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Season 1, Episode 18
Scott Gale ’19 joins host Christine Dobbyn to discuss how entrepreneurship is becoming a key part of a successful company and the future of Houston as the energy capital of the world.

Season 1, Episode 17
Dr. Tom Kolditz, founding director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, joins host David Droogleever to explain why institutions of higher education don't necessarily deliver on their leadership development promises and what the Doerr Institute is doing to change that.