East Coast native Keith Anderson was
intrigued by Houston’s lively personality during the years he spent at the
FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT IN NEW YORK CITY,
BLACKROCK FINANCIAL’S MANAGING DIRECTOR
KEITH ANDERSON STILL COUNTS HOUSTON AS
Jones School. “I was attracted to
Rice because Houston is a city of
growth and opportunity, where
ONE OF ONLY A FEW DYNAMIC CITIES THAT
businesspeople have a very positive
COMBINES TOP BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY WITH
E X C E L L E N C E I N A RT A N D C U LT U R E
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attitude,” he explains. “I found it to be
a very stimulating environment, and
the Rice campus was wonderful. It
KEITH ANDERSON, RICE MBA ’83;
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
B L A C K R O C K F I N A N C I A L M A N A G E M E N T, N E W Y O R K
was attractive and serene; at the
same time, it was only three miles
from the downtown business district
of the fourth-largest city in America.”
One of Keith’s favorite on-campus
activities was attending the Dean’s
Lecture Series, where influential
speakers shared their thoughts on
different careers. “Lectures on campus—even outside the Jones
School—added tremendously to the
experience,” he says. He also enjoyed
the campus’s close proximity to both
the Texas Medical Center and Rice
Village. “The Village is a dynamic
place with great restaurants and shopping, where students, professors,
medical doctors, and researchers
mingle to form a diverse, interesting
group,” he says.
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WELCOME
TO THE
H E
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I C E
L
I F E
R ICE F AMILY
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AT RICE, YOU’LL JOIN A CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY OF
FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI.
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The Rice family shares a wealth of cultural, social, and athletic activities in the stimulating intellectual atmosphere of one of the nation’s premier academic institutions.
Activities on campus include concerts at the
renowned Shepherd School of Music; dramatic
productions by the creative Rice Players; diverse
art exhibits at the Rice University Art Gallery;
lectures by world-class leaders in business,
politics, and the arts; the competitive spirit of
intercollegiate athletics; exercise and intramural
play at the university’s spacious fitness facilities;
and get-togethers at the campus pubs.
Even if you do nothing else, you’ll find the
tranquil Rice setting, with its graceful architecture and towering oak trees, a highly desirable
place to be. The 300-acre campus is well-contained and easy to navigate, and it’s conveniently
located in the heart of Houston.
The campus is just a few miles from the
downtown business district, across the street from
the world renowned Texas Medical Center, and
within one of the city’s most beautiful neighborhoods. Within walking distance are several
superlative museums, the Houston Zoo, beautiful Hermann Park, and Rice Village, an eclectic
shopping community with nationally known
merchants, one-of-a-kind shops, and excellent
restaurants.
Rice University is also close to Houston’s
Montrose area, an enclave of neighborhoods
comparable to New York’s SoHo district, where
students and young professionals enjoy the camaraderie of evenings and weekends at art films,
ethnic restaurants, boutiques, and coffeehouses.
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“ RICE HAS A VERY
STRONG ACADEMIC
PROGRAM, AND
COMPARED TO THE
EAST COAST
SCHOOLS I
CONSIDERED, THE
RICE CAMPUS IS
EXTREMELY
COMFORTABLE AND
VERY FRIENDLY.”
Kristen Weber,
Vanderbilt University BA ’95,
Rice MBA 2000
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A WORLD
OF
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IDEAS
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JONES SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE FREQUENT ACCESS
TO GLOBAL LEADERS IN BUSINESS, POLITICS,
SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE ARTS.
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With more than 25 research centers, institutes,
and consortia, the campus frequently hosts forums and lectures by personalities whose names
you know and names you need to know.
Of special interest to MBA students is the enriching international perspective offered through
events at Rice University’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, established in 1993 to advance
effective foreign and domestic policy by bringing
together the worlds of ideas and action.
SPEAKERS
WHO’VE RECENTLY
VISITED RICE:
NAMES YOU KNOW
AND NAMES YOU
NEED TO KNOW
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World & Politics
• Yasir Arafat
• Madeleine Albright
• James A. Baker, III
• Jerry Brown
• George H. W. Bush
• Jimmy Carter
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Lani Guinier
• Bernice King
• Henry Kissinger
• Colin Powell
• Janet Reno
• Helmut Schmidt
• H. Norman Schwarzkopf
• Edward Shevardnadze
• Lee Kuan Yew
Business
• Doyle L. Arnold
• Greg Brenneman
• Abby Cohen
• Alfred D. DeCrane Jr.
• Linnet Deily
• M. Douglas Ivester
• Edward W. Kelley Jr.
• John Mackey
• Drayton McLane Jr.
• Robert Mosbacher, Sr.
• Dexter Senft
• Jeffrey K. Skilling
• Alex Warren
Arts & Culture
• Cecilia Bartoli
• Alan Dershowitz
• Carlos Fuentes
• Werner Herzog
• Rolando Hinojosa
• Richard Howard
• Philip Levine
• Yo Yo Ma
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Susan Sontag
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Derek Walcott
• Andre Watts
Pictured From Top to Bottom:
General Colin Powell.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Sixty-first Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, visits with Jones School
students after he delivered an address at the Dean’s Lecture Series.
Media
• David S. Broder
• Thomas Friedman
• Katharine Graham
• David Halberstam
• Molly Ivins
M. Douglas Ivester, chairman and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola
Company.
Science and Mathematics
• James L. Cushing
• Daniel S. Goldin
• Jaron Lanier
• David H. Levy
• Roger Penrose
• Steven Pinker
• Neal Lane
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“ HOUSTON HAS A
SURPRISINGLY
VIBRANT INVESTMENT BANKING
COMMUNITY. THE
RICE MBA ENABLED
ME TO BECOME A
PART OF IT. I
PARLAYED MY PRIOR
CAREER EXPERIENCE
AND MY NEW MBA
SKILLS INTO A GREAT
CAREER IN EQUITY
RESEARCH.”
Greg Haas,
Rice MBA ’99;
Equity Research Analyst,
Raymond James & Associates
“COMING TO TEXAS
FROM PHILADELPHIA,
I FEARED THAT I
WOULD HAVE TO
DODGE HORSES AND
COWBOYS TO GET TO
CLASS. WHAT I
REALLY FOUND WAS
A BEAUTIFUL, TREE-
H E
R
I C E
L
I F E
HERE’S HOUSTON!
FAMILY MATTERS
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IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED TEXAS YET, HOUSTON WILL
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR FAMILY WHILE YOU’RE EARNING
S U R P R I S E YO U.
YOUR MBA AT RICE?
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It’s green: the climate is very pleasant during the
school year. It’s cosmopolitan: more than sixty
languages are spoken by the city’s diverse population. It’s dynamic: the skyline glistens with
stunning architecture.
Houstonians love to eat out, and they’ve got
their choice of more than 8,000 restaurants featuring global ethnic cuisines. There’s a lively
night scene at the newly revitalized downtown,
along with performance halls that house worldrenowned resident companies in ballet, opera,
symphony, and theater. The Uptown District features some of the world’s best shopping.
Galveston, with its beaches and Strand Historic
District, is less than an hour’s drive away. The
golf season lasts year-round, with more than 100
courses nearby. Professional sports action includes the NBA Houston Rockets, Houston
Astros baseball, Houston Aeros ice hockey, and
the WNBA Comets.
As an added bonus, Houston is exceptionally affordable, with a cost of living 17 percent
below the national average for cities of comparable size and average annual pay of nearly 8 percent above the national average.
A THRIVING ECONOMY
LINED CAMPUS IN A
METROPOLITAN AREA
WITH ART, MUSIC,
THEATER, AND
MUSEUMS. EVEN MY
CLASSMATES IN
COWBOY BOOTS
KNOW HOW TO
SWING AND SALSA
(AS WELL AS TWOSTEP).”
Lisa H. Beckman,
Temple University BA ’94,
Rice MBA 2000
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HOUSTON’S AVERAGE SCHOOL-YEAR TEMPERATURES (F)
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September --------------------------------------------- 80°
October ------------------------------------------------ 69°
November --------------------------------------------- 56°
December ---------------------------------------------- 54°
January ------------------------------------------------ 53°
February ----------------------------------------------- 56°
March ------------------------------------------------- 61°
April --------------------------------------------------- 65°
May ---------------------------------------------------- 73°
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AIR HOURS FROM HOUSTON
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Chicago ---------------------------------------------- 2:25
Hong Kong ------------------------------------------ 19:55
London ----------------------------------------------- 9:05
Los Angeles ------------------------------------------ 3:26
Mexico City ------------------------------------------- 2:10
New York --------------------------------------------- 3:15
Paris ------------------------------------------------- 10:20
San Francisco ---------------------------------------- 3:51
Singapore ------------------------------------------- 25:10
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If you’re married, your spouse won’t have to put
his or her career on hold while you attend the
Jones School. As the nation’s fourth largest city,
Houston enjoys a thriving economy with abundant opportunity for professional growth in many
diverse industries, including law, banking, international trade and finance, energy, engineering/
design, health care, high technology, biotechnology, space technology, and communications.
A GOOD FAMILY T OWN
Houston is a very family-friendly city. Family
entertainment runs the gamut from baseball and
soccer leagues to themed amusement centers.
The city offers 52,000 acres of parks and quality
attractions such as the Houston Zoo, the Museum of Natural Science, the Cockrell Butterfly
Center, Space Center Houston at NASA, and the
Children’s Museum of Houston. Annual family
events include the Houston International Festival and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
Family health care costs in Houston are 11
percent below the national average for large
metro areas, in part due to the resources of the
Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical care and research community.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Whether your lifestyle is best suited to an urban
loft, a historic bungalow, or a new home in a master-planned suburban community, numerous
residential options are convenient to the Rice
University campus. Housing costs in Houston fall
almost 30 percent below the average for large
urban areas. You may wish to live in the new
university-sponsored housing for graduate students, which opened in fall 1999. Ranging from
efficiencies to four bedrooms, the graduate
apartments are within easy walking distance of
campus and also are served by a university
shuttle bus. Other rental property options are
posted at Rice University’s Student Center
Information Desk.
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