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Admissions Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Getting in easy, apply through embark. You need your usual letters of
recommendation, transcripts, GMAT. If you score 650 or higher, you can
get... READ MORE
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Alumni
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It admission process is well-organized but not as slow as many bigger
programs in other B-school. Typically it has three separate deadlines
for a... READ MORE
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Current Student
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1. Application is available online
2. Set up an interview
3. It is best to get to know the school and student body - especially
those on the ad... READ MORE
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Current Student
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Rice is building its program, which means that it treats students with
high GMAT scores and top undergraduate institutions very well. By very
wel... READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Pretty intense, jammed with general management courses your first year.
It is a module system. Workload is pretty demanding. Finance
professors... READ MORE
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Alumni
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The module system works very well. It divides a typical semester into
three modules. Some courses are finished within one module which is
about ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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Academics are very difficult at Rice - you are drinking through a
firehose, and asked to take finals every 4 weeks. Additionally, there
are always... READ MORE
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Current Student
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The module system at Rice works extremely well. First, it enables
students to cover more material in a semester than a quarter or semester
system... READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Internship you have to search it by yourself, the CPC there is not much help, oh and they take credit for the jobs that students found by themselves. ... READ MORE
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Alumni
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It was the last year of good time for MBA graduates when I was there. Opportunities were incredible. Since Rice is the only major program in the big ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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The Career Planning Center (CPC) is great. Unfortunately, the school was overdependent during the early part of the decade on energy firms. This has... READ MORE
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Current Student
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This year's on-campus recruiting schedule is shaping up better than last year. The major I-banks and consulting firms are back on campus. Of course,... READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Housing is good if you live in the Graduate Apartments, but spaces are
limited. Low crime there, good place to run around (there is a loop
there)... READ MORE
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Alumni
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I was extremely happy with the housing arrangement. I lived in a
brandnew graduate house with all necessary funitures (bed, desk, chair,
closet, ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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Quality of life is very good - very cheap to live in Houston. The
school's campus is very safe.
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Current Student
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It's convertible weather in Houston all year round (sans August's
tropics), Houston is very inexpensive to live in, and it's a highly
cosmopolitan... READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Good social bars in the Rice Village. Good clubs around downtown
Houston and Galleria area. Houston is a good place for a young family,
not real... READ MORE
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Alumni
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There are a lot of great places around campus for students and
faculties hanging out. Unfortunately for me, I was too busy studying.
The place I ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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Great. It's a small school (160-180 people per class) and so people get
to know each other really well.
Student clubs are becoming very strong... READ MORE
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Current Student
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