Enrollment Trends at Rice

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 7,712 where 8,961 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

53.44% of total students is undergraduate students and 46.56% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has increased by 879 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 1,363 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 0.80 to 1 and it means that there are more male students enrolled in Rice than female students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Rice University since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	6,719	3,910	2,062	1,848	2,809	1,797	1,012
2016-17	6,855 136	3,893 -17	2,042 -20	1,851 3	2,962 153	1,910 113	1,052 40
2017-18	7,022 167	4,001 108	2,112 70	1,889 38	3,021 59	1,964 54	1,057 5
2018-19	7,124 102	3,992 -9	2,086 -26	1,906 17	3,132 111	1,971 7	1,161 104
2019-20	7,282 158	3,989 -3	2,066 -20	1,923 17	3,293 161	2,065 94	1,228 67
2020-21	7,643 361	4,076 87	2,131 65	1,945 22	3,567 274	2,283 218	1,284 56
2021-22	8,285 642	4,247 171	2,187 56	2,060 115	4,038 471	2,580 297	1,458 174
2022-23	8,672 387	4,494 247	2,297 110	2,197 137	4,178 140	2,638 58	1,540 82
2023-24	8,556 -116	4,574 80	2,330 33	2,244 47	3,982 -196	2,472 -166	1,510 -30
2024-25	8,961 405	4,789 215	2,413 83	2,376 132	4,172 190	2,570 98	1,602 92
Average	7,712	4,197	2,173	2,024	3,515	2,225	1,290

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 4,197 where 4,789 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Rice University since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	3,910	3,863	2,035	1,828	47	27	20
2016-17	3,893	3,836	2,004	1,832	57	38	19
2017-18	4,001	3,916	2,069	1,847	85	43	42
2018-19	3,992	3,899	2,028	1,871	93	58	35
2019-20	3,989	3,942	2,038	1,904	47	28	19
2020-21	4,076	3,960	2,066	1,894	116	65	51
2021-22	4,247	4,156	2,143	2,013	91	44	47
2022-23	4,494	4,393	2,241	2,152	101	56	45
2023-24	4,574	4,483	2,281	2,202	91	49	42
2024-25	4,789	4,684	2,353	2,331	105	60	45
Average	4,197	4,197	2,126	1,987	4,197	47	37

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 3,515 where 4,172 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Rice University since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	2,809	2,609	1,707	902	200	90	110
2016-17	2,962	2,729	1,794	935	233	116	117
2017-18	3,021	2,781	1,822	959	240	142	98
2018-19	3,132	2,866	1,835	1,031	266	136	130
2019-20	3,293	3,019	1,911	1,108	274	154	120
2020-21	3,567	3,196	2,045	1,151	371	238	133
2021-22	4,038	3,692	2,360	1,332	346	220	126
2022-23	4,178	3,605	2,272	1,333	573	366	207
2023-24	3,982	3,489	2,147	1,342	493	325	168
2024-25	4,172	3,648	2,216	1,432	524	354	170
Average	3,515	3,515	2,011	1,153	3,515	214	138

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 25.90% and the percentage of black students is 7.06% at Rice University. 21.31% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 13.42% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 37.51% to 25.90%. Asian enrollment grew from 17.31% to 21.31%. Black student enrollment increased from 4.75% to 7.06%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 10.42% to 13.42%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.8629 which indicates that highly diverse. This increased from 0.8152 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Rice University over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

• Trends Table
• Interactive Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	6	1,163	319	700	6	2,520	216
2016-17	9	1,175	337	714	5	2,554	218
2017-18	10	1,294	346	750	7	2,495	237
2018-19	9	1,307	383	802	9	2,462	225
2019-20	7	1,380	401	849	9	2,409	238
2020-21	6	1,498	486	907	7	2,553	271
2021-22	5	1,664	574	978	7	2,532	279
2022-23	6	1,775	602	1,042	6	2,396	300
2023-24	11	1,801	631	1,102	7	2,261	329
2024-25	14	1,910	633	1,203	5	2,321	358
Average	8	1,497	471	905	7	2,450	267