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Rice No. 17 Among Nation’s Best Colleges
Rice Among World’s Top 100 Universities
Once Again One of the City’s Best Places to Work
For the eighth year in a row, Rice University has been ranked No. 17 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 edition of “Best Colleges.”
Rice University is one of the world’s top 100 universities, according to new rankings released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
For the sixth year in a row, Rice University has been named one of Houston’s “best places to work” by the Houston Business Journal (HBJ).
Tied with Vanderbilt University for the 17th spot, Rice also appeared on several other lists in “Best Colleges,” including:
Rice is No. 93 — up from No. 99 last year — in the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Harvard University is No. 1. Only three other schools in Texas are among the top 100: the University of Texas at Austin (No. 35), the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (No. 51)
In the category for businesses with more than 500 employees, Rice ranked No. 9 based on employees’ responses to an online survey. As one of eight employers that have won the award for five or more consecutive years, Rice also received a Burnett Staffing Summit Award.
• Rice is No. 16 on the list of best-value schools. • Rice is ranked No. 9 among national universities whose students graduate with the least debt. • On the list of national universities demonstrating economic diversity, Rice ranked 12th highest. • Rice also appeared on the list of top 20 national universities with a high proportion of racial and ethnic diversity. • Among the best undergraduate engineering programs whose highest degree is a doctorate, Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering is in a three-way tie for No. 17 with Texas A&M University and Pennsylvania State University at University Park. • Rice’s biomedical engineering was ranked No. 6, an improvement from last year when it was in a three-way tie for No. 6. For more on the rankings: ››› ricemagazine.info/97
“I can’t think of a better compliment than to be identified as one of the best places to work in the fourth-largest city in America in the great state of Texas.” — John Beddow
and Texas A&M University (No. 100). In ARWU’s comparison of world universities by broad subject fields, Rice ranked No. 47 for natural sciences and mathematics, and it tied for Nos. 52–75 in the social sciences and the engineering/technology/computer science categories. In the rankings by subject fields, Rice was No. 27 for chemistry; it tied for Nos. 51–75 in both computer science and economics/business and Nos. 52–75 for mathematics. The rankings take into account the number of alumni and faculty winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation IndexExpanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per-capita performance with respect to the school’s size.
“I can’t think of a better compliment than to be identified as one of the best places to work in the fourth-largest city in America in the great state of Texas,” HBJ publisher John Beddow told the 54 businesses that were honored this year. Sue Burnett, president of Burnett Staffing Specialists and a sponsor of the awards, also congratulated the winners. “You’ve done something that’s very great. You’ve created a company culture where people love to come to work.” Mary Cronin, Rice’s associate vice president for human resources, praised the staff and faculty for making the award possible. “I’m very proud,” she said, “that we have so many dedicated employees who take enough pride in Rice to express their feelings about working here.”
Learn more about the rankings: › ›› www.shanghairanking.com
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