Rice University
Founded 1912. Small Houston research university with strong engineering and natural sciences.
Overview
William Marsh Rice's murder-for-fortune story nearly derailed the institute bearing his name, but it opened in 1912 anyway, tuition-free for its first half century. Rice keeps enrollment near 4,500 undergraduates while running serious science: the Smalley-Curl work on buckyballs won a Nobel, and the university co-manages major space plasma programs. Its residential college system mirrors Oxford's intimacy inside a research setting. Located beside Houston's medical center and museum district, Rice feeds the energy and biotech corridors, its quads shaded by live oaks.
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