Do people make fun of rice university's name?

We did a Spotlight post on Rice, which might be helpful for someone trying to understand Rice University better. Check out the spotlight ... Rice Jones School of business has an annual world wide business plan competition with financial funding for competing universities which makes it the largest in the world. read more

Haha, it does share its name with that of a crop, but the university is actually named after its founder William Marsh Rice. Rice’s founding story is straight up out of a mystery thriller novel. In 1891, Rice decided to charter a free-tuition educational institute in Houston, bearing his name, to be created upon his death, earmarking most of his estate towards funding the project. read more

Located on a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice’s undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is approximately 6-to-1. read more