Rice University offers 10% of incoming freshmen merit aid. The average merit aid award is $21,740. Rice University is a private college located in Houston, Texas. Its student population is 7,124. It is a four-year, medium, highly residential campus. It has an acceptance rate of 11%. Rice University 4 year graduation rate is 83% .
FRESHMAN W/O NEED, RECEIVING MERIT AID
$21,740
AVG. MERIT AID AWARD
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Recent Financial Aid Offers For the 2019 Admissions Year
Parents who completed the admissions process in 2019 submitted their offer data as presented here.
Money You Don’t Need To pay | Money Your Family Needs To pay | Federal Student Loans (Government) | Work Study | ||||||||||
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Expected Family Contribution | State of Residence | Unweighted GPA | Composite SAT | Composite ACT | Admission Type | College Estimated Cost of Attendance | College Grants & Scholarships (NOT BASED on financial need) | Is this money automatically renewable? | College Grants & Scholarships (BASED on financial need) | Net Cost to your family (before loans & work study) | Subsidized | Unsubsidized | Amount you can earn |
$15001 to $20000 | TX | 4 | 1420 | 31 | Regular Decision | $45000 | $0 | $0 | $45000 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Colleges with Similar Merit Aid Award Percentages and Award Amounts
Name | Cost ![]() | Received Merit Aid ![]() | Avg Merit Aid ![]() | Acceptance Rate ![]() | Merit Match ![]() |
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Rice University | $67,402 | 10% | $21,740 | 11% | |
Boston University | $75,002 | 8% | $23,779 | 22% | |
Davidson College | $37,886 | 6% | $19,973 | 19% | |
Villanova University | $73,124 | 9% | $19,828 | 29% |
Colleges in Southwest Region with similar merit aid awards levels
Name | Cost ![]() | Received Merit Aid ![]() | Avg Merit Aid ![]() | Acceptance Rate ![]() | |
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Rice University | $67,402 | 10% | $21,740 | 11% | |
Texas State University | $37,475 | 12% | $4,098 | 46% | |
University Of Houston Downtown | $22,114 | 11% | $2,457 | 83% | |
The University Of Texas At San Antonio | $35,883 | 11% | $3,030 | 79% | |
The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley | $33,605 | 13% | $3,961 | 81% | |
Oklahoma State University Institute Of Technology | $22,578 | 5% | $2,526 | 0% |
Colleges with similar acceptance rate and median earnings of alumni after 10 years
Name | Acceptance Rate ![]() | 10 Year Salary ![]() |
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Rice University | 11 | $129,500 |
Princeton University | 5 | $139,400 |
Yale University | 6 | $138,300 |
United States Air Force Academy | 11 | $138,100 |
Carnegie Mellon University | 17 | $136,100 |
University Of Pennsylvania | 8 | $133,900 |
Duke University | 9 | $132,100 |
University Of California Berkeley | 15 | $131,800 |
Colleges with similar acceptance rate and cost of attendance
College | Acceptance Rate ![]() | Attendance Cost ![]() |
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Rice University | 11 | $67,402 |
Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science And Art | 16 | $67,013 |
Princeton University | 5 | $69,020 |
Emory University | 19 | $72,604 |
Vanderbilt University | 10 | $73,148 |
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | 7 | $73,160 |
Northeastern University | 19 | $73,236 |
Bates College | 18 | $73,538 |
Colorado College | 15 | $73,600 |
Claremont Mckenna College | 9 | $73,775 |
Bowdoin College | 10 | $73,800 |
Harvard University | 5 | $73,800 |
Colby College | 13 | $74,100 |
University Of Southern California | 13 | $74,111 |
Colleges with similar acceptance rate and similar 4 year graduation rates
Name | Acceptance Rate ![]() | 4 year graduation ![]() |
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Rice University | 11 | 83% |
Tufts University | 15 | 87% |
Johns Hopkins University | 11 | 87% |
Yale University | 6 | 87% |
Haverford College | 19 | 87% |
Barnard College | 14 | 87% |
Harvey Mudd College | 14 | 86% |
Middlebury College | 17 | 86% |
University Of Pennsylvania | 8 | 86% |
Brown University | 8 | 86% |
Williams College | 13 | 86% |
Vanderbilt University | 10 | 86% |
Wesleyan University | 17 | 85% |
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | 7 | 85% |
Cornell University | 11 | 85% |
Claremont Mckenna College | 9 | 84% |
Harvard University | 5 | 84% |
Northwestern University | 8 | 84% |
United States Military Academy | 11 | 82% |
Colorado College | 15 | 82% |
Comparing merit aid in colleges with similar acceptance rates.
Name | Received Merit Aid ![]() | Avg Merit Aid ![]() |
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Rice University | 10% | $21,740 |
University Of Notre Dame | 4% | $21,626 |
Vanderbilt University | 16% | $19,977 |
Davidson College | 6% | $19,973 |
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