Engineering at Rice University

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Rice University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Rice is located in Houston, Texas and has a total student population of 7,643. Of the 1,364 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rice University in 2021, 196 of them were engineering majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Rice Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Engineering

Rice Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering programs across the country. The following shows how Rice performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at Rice is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	3
Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	5
	14
Most Focused Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	73

In 2021, 94 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Rice. This makes it the #121 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 65 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #52 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Rice

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Rice University.

Rice Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Rice since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rice University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	53
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	39
White	61
International Students	23
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

Rice Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 94 students who graduated with a master’s in engineering from Rice in 2021, 63% were men and 37% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rice University with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	18
International Students	52
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Rice also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 65 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Rice University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Biomedical Engineering	97
Mechanical Engineering	77
Chemical Engineering	46
Electrical Engineering	46
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	33
Civil Engineering	26
Operations Research	12
Engineering Physics	10
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	7
Environmental Engineering	1

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Engineering Technologies
• Architecture & Related Services
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Rice University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Software Applications Developers	71,260	$108,760
Systems Software Developers	28,720	$110,740
Civil Engineers	24,460	$102,990
Mechanical Engineers	20,820	$105,570
Petroleum Engineers	19,260	$169,010

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Anatol Stefanowitsch under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.