• Program Description
• Why Rice University?
• Pursuing the Ph.D.
• Academic Year Information
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Please note that you must be a US citizen or permanent resident to be eligible to apply.

Program Description

Rice University, the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas State University, the University of Houston - Victoria, the Houston Community College System, the San Jacinto Junior College System and the Houston Independent District (HISD), comprise the Rice-Houston Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (Rice-Houston AGEP) Program.

Situated in one of the nation's largest, most culturally diverse cities, the Rice-Houston AGEP unites many of the city's research and teaching universities and community colleges in the common mission of significantly increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning the Ph.D. and positioning them to become leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

The Rice-Houston AGEP builds on and leverages the strengths of two highly successful programs – the Rice AGEP and the Houston Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP) – to form a unified, multi-level, long-range alliance deeply committed to this cause.

For information regarding the AGEP activities on the University of Houston campus visit http://agep.uh.edu.

Why Rice?

Rice University, in Houston, Texas, is a small, private university with approximately 2700 undergraduate and 1400 graduate students. More than half the graduate students are enrolled in SME disciplines. Notable features of Rice include:

• Consistently ranked among the top 20 research universities and among the top three BEST BUYs for higher education by national magazines;
• Rice students won 28 of the highly coveted National Science Foundation graduate study SME Fellowships in 1998, more than any university in the country; and
• Twenty Rice faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences and/or the National Academy of Engineering.

Pursuing the Ph.D.

Rice's Wiess School of Natural Sciences and Brown School of Engineering offer exciting research environments at the frontiers of scientific inquiry. Outstanding faculty, state-of-the-art research facilities, and nationally-recognized research centers create a scholarly academic environment within a dynamic, thriving city synonymous with scientific progress and technological innovation. In addition, Houston offers almost unlimited entertainment opportunities including museums, theaters, sporting events, and dining at a multitude of restaurants in a culturally diverse urban setting.