The graduate offerings steadily developed in the sciences and engineering and came to include the humanities and social sciences. On July 1, 1960, the Rice Institute was renamed William Marsh Rice University.

Rice remains the highest rated university in Texas and the 15th highest rated private university in the country. Rice landed among the nation's top 10 universities in two other categories with its undergraduate teaching program tied for No. 6 and its biomedical engineering program ranked No.

Rice University is a comprehensive research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education. Rice professors are among the most distinguished faculty in the world, and with fewer than 20 students in 58 percent of Natural Sciences courses, there is ample opportunity for personal attention.

The major in Biosciences is divided into four distinct major concentrations: Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Genetics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Integrative Biology. Students declaring a major in Biosciences must select one of these four major concentrations.

Higher Education Rice offers more than 50 undergraduate majors across seven divisions of study, including architecture, engineering, business, humanities, music, natural sciences and social sciences.

Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States.

Rice University is known for its science and engineering programs, including the first space science department in the U.S., which can prepare graduates to pursue jobs at NASA. With a low student-to-faculty ratio of just 6-to-1, Rice offers personalized guidance to its students.