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Houston, TX · Private nonprofit

Rice University.

4,776 undergraduate students in fall 2024. Ranked below by four separate College Scorecard measures; each rank is a position among the 1,148 institutions in this collection, not a composite. AI-generated illustration · not this institution’s campus.

Private nonprofit peer · $13,235 net priceExplore Virginia Union University
#45median earnings · of 1,148$89,718 10 yrs after entry2020–21 · 2022 dollars#229annual net price · of 1,148$13,370 per year2023–24#17completion rate · of 1,14894.6%2018 entering cohort#20admission rate · of 1,0868.0%Fall 2024
The years after enrollment

Above the collection’s median.

Former students recorded median earnings of $89,718 ten years after entering. Here’s how that compares with the median university in this collection.

Rice University$89,718
Median institution$56,464
94.6%completed within 150%
of the normal program time
Completion: first-time, full-time 2018 entrants. Earnings: federally aided entrants working and not enrolled; measured 2020–21, in 2022 dollars. Different cohorts, not a forecast.
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Where these numbers come fromData & methodology
Period
Median earnings: 2020–21 · Annual net price: 2023–24 · Completion rate: 2018 cohort · Admission rate: Fall 2024 · Undergraduate size: Fall 2024Tuition & fees: 2024–25. Mixed cohort years are how the release is published; no measure is adjusted to another’s year.
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1,148 operating U.S. public and nonprofit institutionsPredominantly bachelor’s-degree institutions with at least 1,000 undergraduates and published net price, completion and earnings. A defined comparison group, not all universities. Territories are included when they meet the same criteria.
Definition · Median earnings
Median earnings of federally aided entrants who were working and not enrolled ten years after entering; 2009–10 and 2010–11 cohorts, measured in 2020–21 and expressed in 2022 dollars. Includes non-completers. Not starting salaries, not graduates only, and not the causal return on a degree.Ranks use the actual field, ties share a rank, and search or filters keep full-collection ranks. There is no overall composite.

Earnings describe federally aided entrants working and not enrolled ten years after entry, measured in 2020–21 in 2022 dollars, including non-completers. They are not current salaries, not graduates only, and not the causal effect of attending; subjects studied and student backgrounds differ. Campus artwork is a generic AI-generated illustration, not a depiction of any institution.

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