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Celebrating its 25th year, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the celebrated Rice Business Plan Competition this month, doling out more than $2 million in investment and cash prizes to the top-performing teams.
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School Updates
Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “mini gut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and function of the human intestine — took home the grand prize at the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition.
14 Apr
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In The Media
Five student-founded startups have been named finalists for Rice University's prestigious pitch competition, hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship later this month. The teams will compete for a share of $100,000 in equity-free funding at the H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge (NRLC).
11 Apr
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Rice Business professor of accounting Ben Lansford says graduating students who might have pursued accounting a decade ago are now going into investment banking, data analysis and consulting: “Those jobs pay more and also don’t require the fifth year of college education.”
Rice Business is in the top 10 in eight categories in the Princeton Review’s newly released specialty business school rankings for 2023. The latest accolades come on the heels of the school’s fourth straight No. 1 entrepreneurship ranking and second straight No. 4 online MBA ranking.
Rice University's online MBA program has something to brag about. According to a new report, the program has risen through the ranks of other online MBA curriculums.
Ashley Ward ’24, a fellow with the Forté Foundation, an organization focused on career development and business education for women, and Ashleigh Rogers ’24, talk about what it means to be a woman in business.
Limiting cell phone use in classrooms may be one issue that can unite parents, school administrators and politicians from both sides of the aisle. Rice Business marketing professor Vikas Mittal contributes this opinion piece to The Hill.
Rice University's new online hybrid MBA Program is the result of research into the needs and desires of prospective business school students.
MBA salaries and bonuses were at record or near-record levels for the Class of 2022. Rice Business had a 14.9% increase in starting salaries in the last year.
MBA@Rice, the online program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, climbed higher in four categories in the latest edition of U.S News & World Report’s Best Online Programs rankings out today.
Rice Business will welcome its first cohort of students in the new hybrid Master of Business Administration program, the first one in Texas, this summer.
The Hybrid MBA at Rice Business will be the first of its kind in Texas, requiring students to attend on-campus lessons just one weekend per month.
