Rice University

Famous private research institution Rice University is headquartered in Houston, Texas, in the United States. From 2016 through 2019, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking) ranked Rice outside the top 100 institutions. It was reduced to 101-150 in 2020, though. From 2017 through 2021, Rice was ranked by QS (Top Universities) as one of the top 100 universities in the world. From 2017 through 2019, Times Higher Education (THE) ranked Rice among the top 100 universities worldwide. The THE lowered Rice's position, nevertheless, to 105th in 2020 and 124th in 2021. This illustrates a decline in Rice's performance on key ranking factors like teaching, citation, and research.

In its list of the top international universities, US News & World Report has also moved Rice down one spot, from 108th place in 2020 to 128th place. However, since its publication of its national university rating in 2018, US News has consistently maintained Rice University among the top 20 institutions. When it comes to research universities in the USA, Rice is a well-known institution.

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When it comes to course rankings, major rating publishers really like Rice University's business courses. From 2016 to 2019, Bloomberg maintained Rice University's ranking among the top 50 business schools in the USA. But Rice's ranking on Bloomberg has fallen from eighth in 2016 to thirty-first in 2019. From 2016 to 2020, Financial Times will continue to list Rice among the top international MBA programmes. The 2020 FT rankings have Rice at 57th place. In its Accounting & Finance ranking, QS (Top universities) placed Rice between 151-200 in 2020 and 2021. From 2018 to 2021, QS has ranked Rice in the top 100 global MBA ranking services.

Since 2018, Rice has been ranked among the top 50 graduate business schools in the USA by US News & World Report. This information shows how well-known Rice University's business programmes are in the US. Moreover, Rice's MBA programme enjoys international repute. Since 2018, THE has ranked Rice among the top 100 universities for postgraduate engineering and technology. In terms of its rankings for several engineering courses, US News has also ranked Rice among the top 100 universities. Since 2017, THE has ranked Rice in the top 100 in its PG Computers list. In addition to the business courses, ranking providers also like Rice's computer courses.