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Rice Majors & Degree Programs

This overview covers the essential stats on Rice University, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more.

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• Majors List
• Top Program Areas
• Undergraduate Programs
• Bachelor’s Degree Contentrations
• Associate’s Degree Concentrations
• Undergrad’s Certificate Programs
• Most Popular Majors
• Best Ranked Majors
• Highest Paid Majors
• Online Degree Programs

Rice University Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 59 majors graduated from [college_name]. Of these students, 1,349 received undergraduate degrees and 1,103 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Rice Majors List

Rice University offers [major_count] majors across {a number of|several} different {program areas|fields of study} including [top_program1], [top_program2] and [top_program3]. This list of majors offered by Rice includes:

Major	Undergrad	Graduate	Total	Percent
Marketing	542	125	684	28.1%
Nursing	145	51	195	15.5%

Most Popular Rice Program Areas

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Program Area	Undergrad	Graduate	Total	% of Total
Business, Sales & Marketing	542	125	684	28.1%
Health Care Professions	145	51	195	15.5%

The rest of this report will focus on the undergraduate program at Rice University. For more information on the graduate programs at Rice please so our Rice University Graduate Programs Report.

Rice Undergraduate Majors by Degree Level

Major	Certificate	Associate	Bachelors	Total
Marketing	0	125	684	789
Nursing	14	51	495	549

Rice Bachelors Degree Concentrations

Concentration by Major	Females	%	Males	%	Total	% of Major
Marketing
Digital Marketing	12	17.1%	11	87.1%	125	17.1%
Nursing
Registered Nursing	81	57.1%	68	43.1%	111	94.4%

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
Computer Information Systems	149	NA
Health & Physical Education	104	NA
Economics	101	NA
General Psychology	64	NA
Mechanical Engineering	58	NA
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	56	NA
Biomedical Engineering	56	NA
Political Science & Government	48	NA
Cognitive Science	43	NA
Electrical Engineering	38	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Rice University along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Rice University Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 59 majors graduated from [college_name]. Of these students, 1,349 received undergraduate degrees and 1,103 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
Computer Information Systems	149	NA
Health & Physical Education	104	NA
Economics	101	NA
General Psychology	64	NA
Mechanical Engineering	58	NA
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	56	NA
Biomedical Engineering	56	NA
Political Science & Government	48	NA
Cognitive Science	43	NA
Electrical Engineering	38	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Rice University along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

More about our data sources and methodologies.