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Rice Digital Learning and Strategy to advance personalized education on global scale

April 28, 2025

Rice has announced the launch of Rice Digital Learning and Strategy, a reimagined office aimed at expanding the university’s impact through innovative digital learning initiatives.

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Travel the world while receiving a top-notch education through Rice’s Online Master’s program

February 21, 2025

Leah Li, an international student pursuing a career in computer science, spent years looking for a program that would allow her to experience the world while also obtaining a high-level education to set her up for success.

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Rice earns top 10 spot in US News rankings for online graduate computer science program

January 21, 2025

Rice’s Online Master of Computer Science program continues its meteoric rise, advancing four more spots to No. 10 in the latest U.S. News and World Report Best Online Programs rankings.

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Rice selected to participate in AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy and the Curriculum

September 23, 2024

The initiative focuses on equipping institutions with the tools and strategies needed to thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their curricula, ensuring that AI enhances, rather than disrupts, the educational experience.

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Rice MBA programs land in the top 5 of Princeton Review’s Best Business School rankings

August 5, 2024

MBA programs from Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business have been ranked in the top five of The Princeton Review’s Best Business Schools rankings for 2024.

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Rice’s online Master of Computer Science degree ranked No. 3 by Fortune

May 8, 2024

Rice’s online Master of Computer Science program was honored by Fortune Magazine with the No. 3 designation in its national rankings.

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Rice’s OpenStax awarded $90M to lead first-of-its-kind NSF research hub for transformational learning and education research

April 24, 2024

OpenStax at Rice University was awarded $90 million from the National Science Foundation to build and lead SafeInsights, a groundbreaking research and development (R&D) hub for inclusive learning and education research to benefit tens of millions of students and their instructors across all educational levels.

Rice University is offering a bevy of summer school programs and courses to prospective and current students this year.

Rice offers intriguing summer school options to wide range of students

March 19, 2024

Rice University is offering a bevy of summer school programs and courses to prospective and current students this year.

 Rice University and its Biotech Launch Pad today announced a peer-reviewed publication in Nature Communications detailing the development of a novel and rechargeable device — an electrocatalytic on-site oxygenator (ecO2) that produces oxygen to keep cells alive inside an implantable “living pharmacy,” potentially improving the outcomes of cell-based therapies.

Rice Online Master of Computer Science program cracks top 15 in US News rankings

February 7, 2024

Rice University’s Online Master of Computer Science Program leaped 13 spots in the latest edition of U.S News & World Report’s Best Online Programs rankings, announced today.

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Rice Business online MBA ranks No. 6 nationally, according to Poets&Quants

November 27, 2023

Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business ranks No. 6 nationally for its online Master of Business Administration program, according to Poets and Quants rankings released today. MBA@Rice is the fastest-growing program at the business school since its launch in 2018.

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Award-winning Rice economics instructor creates affordable and fun textbook for students

August 23, 2023

Rice economics instructor James “Jimmy” DeNicco has become known around campus for his straightforward and entertaining approach to teaching ECON 100, “Principles of Economics,” explaining complicated concepts using real-world examples like Texas barbecue, pop culture references and more.

Digital learning at Rice University is entering a new phase, underpinned by an enhanced focus on development and innovation.

Rice digital enters new phase of development

August 18, 2023

Digital learning at Rice University is entering a new phase, underpinned by an enhanced focus on development and innovation.

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OpenStax unveils new project to drive equity in education

July 24, 2023

OpenStax, an educational initiative from Rice University, unveiled a project designed to solve one of the trickiest challenges in education research: facilitating research projects about equity in education while also preserving student privacy and protecting sensitive learner demographic data. 

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Rice Business celebrates five years of the Online MBA

July 11, 2023

This month, the online MBA program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business celebrates five years since matriculating its first cohort of students. The online MBA has become the fastest growing program at the business school since its launch in 2018.

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Rice Business No. 1 for entrepreneurship, No. 5 for online MBA

November 15, 2022

Rice Business received top billing on two prominent lists rating academic excellence that were announced today: Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s entrepreneurship ranking (No. 1) and Poets and Quants’ online MBA ranking (No. 5).

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