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4.3

86% would recommend to a friend

(1,496 total reviews)
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79% positive business outlook

Rice University has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Rice University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Jun 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Friendly environment. Small faculty to student ratio. More attention.

Cons

small department (Computer Science). Not well-rounded in all areas.

4.0
Jun 12, 2014

Fantastic Facilities and people

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As a student here there was an amazing community built to help you succeed.

Cons

Many classes were theory based, and design based courses were not implemented until the higher level courses. Although this seems to be changing with the freshman engineering courses of late.

5.0
Jun 9, 2014

Great Place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place, peaceful environment, nice colleagues

Cons

University should improve industry and city outreach

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