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The campus of Rice University is located on a heavily wooded 290-acre (120-hectare) plot of land on South Main Street in the Museum District of Houston, Texas.It is located east of Rice Village, a retail district, south of Boulevard Oaks and Southampton, west of the Texas Medical Center, and north of Southgate.
Rice University, officially William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It sits on a 300-acre (120 ha) campus adjacent to the Houston Museum District and the Texas Medical Center .
Rice University arboretum (extends across campus) Rice University contains eleven residential colleges which function as the primary housing, dining, and social organizations for undergraduate students. The system was established in 1957 and was inspired by the residential college systems at the University of Oxford and the University of ...
The university is organized into eight schools offering 40 undergraduate degree programs, [14] 51 masters programs, and 29 doctoral programs. [15] [16] Strayer University, established in 1892, is a private college offering associate's, bachelor's and master's degree programs. There are 3 campuses in the Houston area offering both on campus and ...
The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas.Named in honor of Jesse Holman Jones, a Houston business and civic leader, the school received its initial funding in 1974 through a major gift from the Houston Endowment Inc., a philanthropic foundation established by Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs ...
Texas Medical Center at twilight, viewed from Rice University campus. The Texas Medical Center was established in 1945, in part by funds endowed to the M.D. Anderson Foundation by businessman Monroe Dunaway Anderson. [11] The fund's first gift was a check of $1,000 to the Junior League Eye Fund for eyeglasses.
Rice Stadium is an American football stadium located on the Rice University campus in Houston, Texas.It has been the home of the Rice Owls football team since its completion in 1950, [6] and hosted John F. Kennedy's "We choose to go to the Moon" speech in 1962 and Super Bowl VIII in early 1974.
Coordinates: 29.7189°N 95.3998°W. Rice School of Architecture, also referred to as Rice Architecture, is the architecture school of Rice University in Houston, Texas. The graduate and undergraduate programs in architecture foreground design, history/theory, technology, and culture as critical academic subjects.