Rice featured as affordable, academically elite

Rice featured as affordable, academically elite

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Recent reports in the news media from around the country have highlighted Rice’s affordability and rigorous academics.

An article on MSN.com featured the Coldwell Banker College Home Price Comparison Index. Rice was listed as the ninth most affordable college market with a home price of $169,736 in 2007. Among the most expensive were Stanford University, $1.67 million; University of California, Berkeley, $1.28 million; and Northwestern University, $708,000.

Rice also was mentioned in a Virgin Island Daily News column on finding the right fit in a college. In discussing colleges that are “best buys,” columnist Chris Teare, a certified educational planner, described Rice this way:

“It looks to me as if plenty of the cash in Exxon’s hometown went straight into bricks, mortar and brains at Rice. Combining residential-college living modeled on Yale and academics inspired by Cooper Union and Princeton, Rice is outstanding in everything from architecture to nanotechnology. When I toured the Baker Institute and saw pictures of a slew of visiting world leaders, I saw power.”