Find Your MBA

Dedicate Fully To Your Rice MBA Experience

With 180 students whose makeup mirrors the most diverse city in America, the Full-Time MBA offers a fully immersive experience along with connections that will last a lifetime. Our uniquely demanding and collaborative academic culture ensures that you come away with top-flight business expertise – as well as an unmatched professional community, built by working together. In addition to classroom instruction and collaboration with peers, full-time MBA students have the opportunity for internships over the summer which provide the chance to explore new, different job functions or even industries.

If you are an undergraduate student who plans to pursue a full-time MBA at Rice Business, you may want to consider the deferred enrollment program. With the Rice MBA Deferred Enrollment Program, you can apply during your final year of college and secure a spot in a future full-time MBA class that starts anywhere from two to five years after graduation.

Work While You Earn Your MBA 100% In-Person

There's little that can catapult you further at work than acquiring new skills. Our top-ranked Professional MBA is for students committed to improving their abilities and seeking a full in-person MBA experience while continuing their current jobs.

Our Professional MBA provides both an evening and weekend option. In fact, our evening program is the only part-time evening MBA program in Texas and the nearby region. And students are able to take advantage of some less obvious benefits: a smaller financial commitment annually and more opportunity for work-life balance.

For Working Professionals Within and Outside of Houston Who Can Only Come to Campus Once a Month

We know you're busy – juggling work, family and traffic. We offer a top-ranked program with the convenience you need. You can take classes on campus one weekend a month and online one evening per week.

It’s the same top-ranked part-time MBA that we’re known for, offering plenty of opportunities to network in person and more flexibility to accommodate your busy schedule.

There are no other one-weekend-a-month part-time MBA programs in the region. Don’t live in Houston? No problem. The Hybrid MBA includes residency at a hotel close to Rice during your on-campus weekends so you can connect with your classmates. We include the cost of the hotel as part of your tuition because we believe in the power of being together, learning together and making connections for a lifetime. The residency will also be your home base for two immersive weeks, one at the beginning of the program and the other at the end of your first year. The third immersion is the Global Field Experience at an international location and is scheduled at the end of your second year. 

Earn a Rice MBA No Matter Where You Are

You already do much of your best work online: communicating and creating, analyzing and building. MBA@Rice uses the technology of the 21st century workplace to propel you ahead professionally. No matter where you are, our online MBA gives you a globally competitive business education, with no need to leave your home and work commitments.  

The core curriculum, the same as all of our MBA programs, develops your understanding of critical business principles such as business analytics, marketing strategy, leadership and finance. It also permits you to build skills in a focused specialization. The second-year curriculum empowers you to apply the skills in your own, self-designed focus area.

The flexibility of online study allows you to earn a Rice MBA degree wherever you live. This digital efficiency is enhanced with essential in-person training: each term, a week can be devoted to an Intensive Learning Experience or Rice's signature Global Field Experience, available in all of the school’s MBA programs.

Prepare for the C-Suite

If you’re already at a senior level, you know you wouldn’t have reached that point without pushing yourself to learn. The Executive MBA is for seasoned executives and managers who have an average of 16 years of experience – and are ready to gain a breadth of knowledge outside their current areas of mastery. The Executive MBA will give you and your classmates training in leadership, strategy and decision-making skills. In addition to core instruction, experiential training with your cohort and mandatory international experience, the Rice Business Executive MBA offers each student a personal executive coach.

For Highly Motivated Students with Specific Career Goals

Rice University offers both coordinated and dual degree programs. The coordinated degree pairs the Rice Full-Time MBA with advanced degrees in professional science. The dual degree pairs the Rice MBA with a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine.